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Floristic Inventory of the Florida Keys Database Online

Sabal palmetto (Walt.) Lodd. ex J.A. & J.H. Schultes
Cabbage palm

Copyright by: George D. Gann

Family: Arecaceae

Group: Monocot

Substrate: Terrestrial

Habit: Tree

Perennation: Perennial

Native Range: Southeastern United States, the Bahamas and Cuba.

IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status: Secure

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 a 2018 post on the Treasure Coast Natives blog on the remarkable multi-species ecological web on Cabbage Palms.

FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence: Present

FLORIDA KEYS Native Status: Native

IRC FLORIDA KEYS Status: Rare

Map of select IRC data for the Florida Keys

Florida Keys History and Distribution: Reported in 1913 by John Kunkel Small for hammocks in the lower Keys. We consider this native and extant from the upper Keys to the lower Keys.

Other data on Sabal palmetto available from :

	Occurrence	Native Status
Sabal palmetto has been reported from the following 17 conservation areas in the FLORIDA KEYS :
Bahia Honda State Park	Present	Native
Biscayne National Park, Florida Keys Section	Present	Native
Blue Heron Hammock, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammocks Botanical State Park	Present	Native
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park	Present	Native
Key West National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Lignumvitae Key Botanical State Park, Klopp Tract	Present	Native
Little Hamaca Park	Present	Native
Little Torch Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Long Key State Park	Present	Native
Middle Torch Hammocks Parcel 3063, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
National Key Deer Refuge	Present	Native
Ramrod Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Spoonbill Sound Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Sugarloaf Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Torchwood Hammock Preserve	Present	Native