Family: Apocynaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Vine
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Preliminary IRC Status:
Secure
Native Range:
The West Indies,
peninsular Florida, and the Bay Islands of Honduras.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Reported in 1920 by Britton & Millspaugh for shrublands and coppices nearly throughout the Archipelago (Grand Bahama and Andros to Great Inagua and Grand Turk). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 1144-1145, with illustrations) as climbing on shrubs in coppices, in pinelands and in saline flats and rocky open soil, nearly throughout Archipelago (regions 10-1).
Comments:
For information and images from Eleuthera, visit the
Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve website. Also visit IRC's
Natives For Your Neighborhood website for horticultural information about this species in South Florida.
Synonyms:
Urechites lutea.
