Family: Apocynaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Vine
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: South Florida and the Bahamas.
State of Florida Status:
Threatened
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: This is rare in South Florida and is primarily know from the Miami Rock Ridge, the Florida Keys and the Ten Thousand Islands area. It is frequent in remnant pine rockland fragments on the Miami Rock Ridge and in the lower Florida Keys. Using modern NatureServe criteria, we re-ranked this as Imperiled in South Florida in July, 2018.
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
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Synonyms:
Cynanchum blodgettii.
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 hammocks from the upper Key to the lower Keys, but under his definition the upper Keys would have extended south and west to West Summerland Key. We consider this native and extant in the lower Keys. Also, it is more closely associated with pinelands than with hammocks.
