Family: Lauraceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Tree
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Preliminary IRC Status:
Critically Imperiled
Native Range:
The Bahamas, southeastern United States and northern Mexico.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Reported in 1920 by Britton & Millspaugh for "Palmetto-lands, Great Bahama at Barnett's Point" (Grand Bahama). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 542-543, with illustrations) for open swamps and wetlands in the northwestern Commonwealth (regions 10).
Comments:
Also visit IRC's
Natives For Your Neighborhood website for horticultural information about this species in South Florida.
Synonyms:
Persea pubescens (Pursh) Sarg.;
Persea borbonia of Correll & Correll (1982), not (L.) Spreng.
