Family: Aizoaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Annual
Habit:
Herb
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Native Range:
The West Indies, United States, Mexico and Central America (Belize); scattered.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Reported in 1920 by Britton & Millspaugh for salinas and edges of mangrove swamps in the northwestern and central Commonwealth (Andros, Ship Channel Cay, Cat Island, Long Island, Little San Salvador, Watling’s). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 507) for “rock flats and mud about ponds, and disturbed soil about beach areas” nearly throughout the northwestern Commonwealth (regions 9-4, 2).
