Family: Asteraceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Preliminary IRC Status:
Imperiled
Native Range:
Endemic to the Bahama Archipelago (accepted as endemic by Freid et al. 2014).
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
In open, rocky pinelands; northwestern archipelago (Correll & Correll, 1982).
Comments:
For an image of an herbarium specimen collected on New Providence by Allen H. Curtiss in 1903, visit the
New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium.
Synonyms:
Vernonia arbuscula, Vernonia bahamensis, Vernonia obcordata.
