Family: Malvaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Herb
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: South Florida, the West Indies (Cuba, Bahamas) and southern Mexico (Yucatan peninsula).
NatureServe Global Status:
Apparently Secure
State of Florida Status:
Endangered
Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status:
Critically Imperiled
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 392-394) based on three occurrences in three protected areas and two non-protected areas (Klopp Tract, Lignumvitae Key Botanical State Park; Long Key State Park, Long Key Layton Coastal Rock Barren, and North Layton Hammock; Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park).
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Not Cultivated
Comments: See also Florida Natural Areas Inventory's
Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Florida page (Chafin 2000).
Synonyms:
C. heterophylla.
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 Lignumvitae Key. There is an undated specimen for Key West from the herbarium of A.W. Chapman, but this may represent a mislabeled collection. Reported in
1913 by John Kunkel Small for hammocks and open places in the upper Keys, but his definition of upper Keys included the middle Keys. We consider this native and extant only in the middle Keys. For more information on C. yucatanensis in the Florida Keys, see IRC's
species account.
