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Citharexylum spinosum L.
Florida fiddlewood

Copyright by: George D. Gann, 2016
Native in urban landscape, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Enlarge

Family: Verbenaceae

Group: Dicot

Substrate: Terrestrial

Habit: Tree

Perennation: Perennial

Native Range: Eastern peninsular Florida, the West Indies and northern South America.

Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida

IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status: Apparently Secure

SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence: Present

SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status: Native

SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status: Cultivated

Comments: Visit our Natives For Your Neighborhood website for more information and images. For a digitized image of Elbert Little's Florida range map, visit the Exploring Florida website.

Synonyms: C. fruticosum, C. villosum.

Other data on Citharexylum spinosum available from :

	Occurrence	Native Status
Citharexylum spinosum has been found in the following 58 conservation areas :
A.D. Doug Barnes Park	Present	Native
Alice C. Wainwright Park	Present	Native
Arch Creek Addition	Present	Native
Arch Creek Park	Present	Native
Atlantic Dunes Park	Present	Native
Beachwalk Pasley Park	Present	Native
Big Cypress National Preserve	Present	Native
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park	Present	Native
Bill Sadowski Park	Present	Native
Biscayne National Park	Present	Native
Biscayne National Park, Florida Keys Section	Present	Native
Blowing Rocks Preserve	Present	Native
Camp Owaissa Bauer	Present	Native
Camp Owaissa Bauer Addition	Present	Native
Castellow Hammock parcel 28	Present	Native
Castellow Hammock parcel 33	Present	Native
Castellow Hammock Park	Present	Native
Crandon Park	Present	Native
Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammocks Botanical State Park	Present	Native
Deering Estate at Cutler	Present	Native
Delray Beach Municipal Beach	Present	Native
Enchanted Forest Park	Present	Native, Cultivated Only
Everglades National Park	Present	Native
Florida City Pineland	Present	Native
Frog Pond/L-31 N Transition Lands	Present	Native
Fuchs Hammock Preserve	Present	Native
Greynolds Park	Present	Native
Harden Hammock	Present	Native
Hattie Bauer Hammock	Possibly Extirpated	Possibly Extirpated
Hobe Sound Sandhill	Present	Native
Holiday Hammock	Present	Native
Hugh Taylor Birch State Park	Possibly Extirpated	Possibly Extirpated
John D. MacArthur Beach State Park	Present	Native, Cultivated Only
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park	Present	Native
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area	Present	Native
Kendalwood	Present	Native
Key West National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Lignumvitae Key Botanical State Park	Present	Native
Long Key State Park	Reported
Loveland Hammock	Present	Native
Matheson Hammock Park	Present	Native
Meissner Hammock	Present	Native
National Key Deer Refuge	Present	Native
Navy Wells Pineland 23	Present	Native
Navy Wells Pineland 39		Native
Navy Wells Pineland Preserve	Present	Native
Oleta River State Park	Present	Native, Cultivated Only
R. Hardy Matheson Preserve	Present	Native
Red Reef Park, including Gumbo Limbo Nature Center	Present	Native
Simpson Park	Present	Native
SOCSOUTH	Present	Native, Cultivated Only
South Beach Park	Present	Native
Sunny Palms Pineland	Present	Native
The Barnacle State Historic Park	Present	Native
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens	Present	Native
Whispering Pines Hammock Preserve	Present	Native
Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park	Present	Native, Cultivated Only

	Occurrence	Native Status
Citharexylum spinosum has been found in the following 6 counties :
Collier County		Native
Martin County		Native
Miami-Dade County		Native
Monroe County (Keys)		Native
Monroe County (Mainland)		Native
Palm Beach County		Native