Family: Asteraceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Herb
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: South Florida, the West Indies (not Jamaica, Lesser Antilles) and Central America.
State of Florida Status:
Threatened
Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status:
SNR
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
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 rare in Rare Plants of South Florida (Gann et al. 2002), this is very rare in South Florida, known only from the Miami Rock Ridge and the Florida Keys. Using modern NatureServe criteria, we reranked this as imperiled in South Florida in 2018.
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
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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: Not reported for the Florida Keys by John Kunkel Small in 1913. Reported for Big Pine Key (Dickson, 1953) and the National Key Deer Refuge (Austin et al., 1980) in the lower Florida Keys. We consider this native and extant only on Big Pine Key.
