Family: Euphorbiaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Tree
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: South Florida, the West Indies, Mexico, Central America and northwestern South America.
NatureServe Global Status:
Secure
State of Florida Status:
Endangered
Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status:
Imperiled
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Imperiled
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
Comments: Visit our
Natives For Your Neighborhood website for more information and images. For a digitized image of Elbert Little's Florida range map, visit the
Exploring Florida website. See also Florida Natural Areas Inventory's
Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Florida page (Chafin 2000).
FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence:
Present
FLORIDA KEYS Native Status:
Native
IRC FLORIDA KEYS Status:
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 hammocks in the lower Keys. Mapped by Elbert L. Little, Jr. (1978) for the upper Keys and the lower Keys, but absent from about Upper Matecumbe Key through West Summerland Key. We consider this native and extant in the upper Keys and the lower Keys.
