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Hamelia patens Jacq. var. patens
Firebush

Copyright by: Roger L. Hammer

Family: Rubiaceae

Group: Dicot

Substrate: Terrestrial

Habit: Shrub

Perennation: Perennial

Native Range: Bermuda, peninsular Florida, the West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America.

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.

Other data on Hamelia patens var. patens available from :

	Occurrence	Native Status
Hamelia patens var. patens has been found in the following 69 conservation areas :
Alice C. Wainwright Park	Possibly Extirpated	Possibly Extirpated
Arch Creek Addition	Present	Native
Arch Creek Park	Present	Native
Barley Barber Swamp	Present	Native
Big and Little George Hammocks	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
Black Creek Forest	Present	Native
Camp Owaissa Bauer	Present	Native
Camp Owaissa Bauer Addition	Present	Native
Castellow Hammock parcel 28	Present	Native
Castellow Hammock parcel 31	Present	Native
Castellow Hammock parcel 33	Present	Native
Castellow Hammock Park	Present	Native
Cedar Point Environmental Park	Present	Native
Chernoff Hammock	Present	Native, Cultivated Only
Collier-Seminole State Park	Present	Native
Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed (CREW)	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
Doris Davis Forman Wilderness Preserve Natural Area	Present	Native
Dove Creek Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park	Present	Native
Dupuis Reserve	Present	Native
Enchanted Forest Park	Present	Native
Everglades National Park	Present	Native
Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Fern Forest Nature Center	Present	Native
Frenchman's Forest Natural Area	Present	Native
Fuchs Hammock Preserve	Present	Native
Greynolds Park	Present	Native
Gulfstream Park	Present	Native
Harden Hammock	Present	Native
Hattie Bauer Hammock	Present	Native
Hillsboro Pineland Natural Area	Present	Native
Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Hugh Taylor Birch State Park	Present	Native
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
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area	Present	Native
Kendalwood	Present	Native
Lignumvitae Key Botanical State Park	Possibly Extirpated	Possibly Extirpated
Matheson Hammock Park	Present	Native
Meissner Hammock	Present	Native
National Key Deer Refuge	Present	Native
Nixon Smiley Pineland Addition	Present	Native
Oleta River State Park	Present	Native
Picayune Strand State Forest	Present	Native
R. Hardy Matheson Preserve	Present	Native
Red Reef Park, including Gumbo Limbo Nature Center	Present	Native
Rockdale Pineland	Present	Native
Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve	Present	Native
Savannas Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Seabranch Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Secret Woods Nature Center	Present	Native
Sewell Park	Present	Native
Silver Palm Groves	Present	Native
Silver Palm Hammock	Present	Native
Simpson Park	Present	Native
SOCSOUTH	Assumed to be Present	Native
South Beach Park	Present	Native
The Barnacle State Historic Park	Present	Native
Tree Tops Park	Present	Native
Trinity Pineland	Present	Native

	Occurrence	Native Status
Hamelia patens var. patens has been found in the following 7 counties :
Broward County		Native
Collier County		Native
Lee County		Native
Martin County		Native
Miami-Dade County		Native
Monroe County (Keys)		Native
Monroe County (Mainland)		Native