Family: Asteraceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Herb
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: Endemic to South Florida.
State of Florida Status:
Threatened
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Rare
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
South Florida History and Distribution: This is widespread in South Florida, and most common on the Miami Rock Ridge and in the Big Cypress. It grows in pine rocklands, pine flatwoods, and marl prairies all of which have been subjected to continuous habitat loss and fragmentation outside of Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve. Using modern NatureServe criteria, we re-ranked this as Rare in South Florida in July 2018.
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
Comments: Visit our
Natives For Your Neighborhood website for more information and images. For an image of the holotype specimen collected on Big Pine Key by John Loomis Blodgett, visit the
New York Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium.
Synonyms:
M. nivea, misapplied.
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: Reported in
1913 by John Kunkel Small for pinelands and coastal sand dunes from the upper Keys to the lower Keys, but we have records only from Big Pine Key in the lower Keys, were we consider this native and extant.
