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Conocarpus erectus L.
Buttonwood

Copyright by: Roger L. Hammer

Family: Combretaceae

Group: Dicot

Substrate: Terrestrial

Habit: Tree

Perennation: Perennial

Native Range: Bermuda, Florida, the West Indies, Mexico, Central America, South America, Galapagos and western Africa.

Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida

IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status: 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. See also a 2022 post on the Treasure Coast Natives blog about the "witch's broom" deformity observed occasionally in Buttonwood.

Other data on Conocarpus erectus available from :

	Occurrence	Native Status
Conocarpus erectus has been found in the following 102 conservation areas :
Alice C. Wainwright Park	Present	Native, Cultivated Only
Arch Creek Addition	Present	Native
Arch Creek Park	Present	Native
Atlantic Dunes Park	Present	Native, Cultivated Only
Attwood Addition, Indian Key Historic State Park	Present	Native
Bahia Honda State Park	Present	Native
Barefoot Beach Preserve	Present	Native
Beachwalk Pasley Park	Present	Native
Big Cypress National Preserve	Present	Native
Big Torch Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	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
Black Point Park and Marina	Present	Native
Blowing Rocks Preserve	Present	Native
Blue Heron Hammock, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Bocilla Preserve	Present	Native
Cape Romano - Ten Thousand Islands Aquatic Preserve	Present	Native
Cayo Costa State Park	Present	Native
Cedar Point Environmental Park	Present	Native
Chapman Field Park	Present	Native
Collier-Seminole State Park	Present	Native
Crandon Park	Present	Native
Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Curry Hammock State Park	Present	Native
Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammocks Botanical State Park	Present	Native
Deering Estate at Cutler	Present	Native
Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park	Present	Native
Don Pedro Island State Park	Present	Native
Dove Creek Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park	Present	Native
Dry Tortugas National Park	Present	Native
Enchanted Forest Park	Present	Native, Cultivated Only
Estero Bay Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Everglades National Park	Present	Native
Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Frog Pond/L-31 N Transition Lands	Present	Native
Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association tract A
Gasparilla Island State Park	Present	Native
Girl Scouts South Miami Little House	Present	Native, Cultivated Only
Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Greynolds Park	Present	Native
Gulfstream Park	Present	Native
Highland Oaks Park	Present	Native
Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Hollywood North Beach Regional Park	Present	Native
Homestead Bayfront Park	Present	Native
Hugh Taylor Birch State Park	Present	Native
Indian Key Historic State Park	Reported
J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
John D. MacArthur Beach State Park	Present	Native
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park	Present	Native
Jonathan Dickinson State Park	Present	Native
Juno Dunes Natural Area	Present	Native
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area	Present	Native
Jupiter Ridge Natural Area	Present	Native
Key West National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Kitchen Key	Present	Native
Lake San Pedro Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Lemon Bay Aquatic Preserve	Present	Native
Lignumvitae Key Botanical State Park	Present	Native
Lignumvitae Key Botanical State Park, Klopp Tract	Present	Native
Little Hamaca Park	Present	Native
Little Torch Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Long Key State Park	Present	Native
Lovers Key State Park	Present	Native
Lucille Hammock	Present	Native
Mangrove Preserve	Present	Native
Matanzas Pass Preserve	Present	Native
Matheson Hammock Park	Present	Native
Middle Torch Hammocks Anderson, Lipchak, 3112 Parcels, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Middle Torch Hammocks Parcel 3063, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Mound Key Archaeological State Park	Present	Native
National Key Deer Refuge	Present	Native
Ocean Ridge Hammock Park	Present	Native
Oleta River State Park	Present	Native
Phipps Ocean Park	Present	Native
R. Hardy Matheson Preserve	Present	Native
Ramrod Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Red Reef Park, including Gumbo Limbo Nature Center	Present	Native
Rockdale Pineland	Present	Native
Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve	Present	Native
San Carlos Bay - Bunche Beach Preserve	Present	Native
Secret Woods Nature Center	Present	Native
Snake Creek Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
SOCSOUTH	Present	Native
South Beach Park	Present	Native, Cultivated Only
South Dade Wetlands	Present	Native
Southern Glades	Present	Native
Spoonbill Sound Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Stump Pass Beach State Park	Present	Native
Sugarloaf Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Tigertail Beach County Park	Present	Native
Torchwood Hammock Preserve	Present	Native
Vanderbilt Beach County Park	Present	Native
Virginia Key Beach Park and Marine Stadium	Present	Native
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens	Present	Native
Wahoo Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
West Lake Park/Anne Kolb Nature Center	Present	Native
Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park	Present	Native

	Occurrence	Native Status
Conocarpus erectus has been found in the following 9 counties :
Broward County		Native
Charlotte County		Native
Collier County		Native
Lee County		Native
Martin County		Native
Miami-Dade County		Native
Monroe County (Keys)		Native
Monroe County (Mainland)		Native
Palm Beach County