Family: Poaceae
Group: Monocot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Herb
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: Southeastern United States, the West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America.
Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status:
Not listed
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Critically Imperiled
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
South Florida History and Distribution: Ranked as critically imperiled in Rare Plants of South Florida (
Gann et al. 2002; pp 233-235) based on one extant occurrence at Dry Tortugas National Park, Monroe County. In 2013 it was documented by Everglades National Park botanist Jimi Sadle and IRC biologists Craig van der Heiden and James Johnson in Florida Bay within Everglades National Park where it had been intermittently documented since 1905. See also, IRC’s report
Vascular plant species of management concern in Everglades National Park (Gann 2015), page 140.
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Not Cultivated
Synonyms:
Cenchropsis myosuroides.
FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence:
Present
FLORIDA KEYS Native Status:
Native
IRC FLORIDA KEYS Status:
Critically Imperiled
Map of select IRC data for the Florida Keys
Florida Keys History and Distribution: First collected between 1838 and 1853 by John Loomis Blodgett on the island of Key West. Reported in
1913 by John Kunkel Small for pinelands and edges of hammocks from the upper Keys to the lower Keys. First collected in the lower sandy Keys by F.R. Fosberg in 1962. We consider this native throughout the Florida Keys, but apparently extirpated everywhere except Dry Tortugas National Park. For more information on C. myosuroides, see IRC's
species account.
