Family: Phytolaccaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Vine
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: South Florida, the West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America.
NatureServe Global Status:
Apparently Secure
State of Florida Status:
Endangered
Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status:
Critically 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: While ranked as critically imperiled in South Florida in
Rare Plants of South Florida (Gann et al. 2002; p. 331), several new populations have been recorded since that time. Hoopvine was discovered in 2007 in Everglades National Park in Monroe County by IRC biologist Jesse Hoffman, in 2015 at Simpson Park in Miami-Dade County by George Gann and colleagues, and in 2017 at Kendall Indian Hammocks Park in Miami-Dade County by IRC Research Associate Jimmy Lange and colleagues. Based on these new discoveries, the wide, scattered historical distribution of this in South Florida, and the generally weedy and aggressive nature of some populations, we have re-ranked this as imperiled in May 2017, but it may warrant further downranking in the future. Populations at both Simpson Park and Kendall Indian Hammocks have gone from unreported to hyperabundant (see definition in
Keenleyside et al. 2012; p. 27, Box 7), and require some management control. See also, IRC’s report
Vascular plant species of management concern in Everglades National Park (Gann 2015; p 45).
FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence:
Presumed Extirpated
FLORIDA KEYS Native Status:
Presumed Extirpated
IRC FLORIDA KEYS Status:
Presumed Extirpated
Map of select IRC data for the Florida Keys
Florida Keys History and Distribution: First collected in 1921 by John Kunkell Small and Paul Matthaus on Pumpkin Key. Collected there again in 1970 by George N. Avery, but it has not been seen in the Florida Keys since. We consider this to be presumed extirpated in the upper Keys.
