DOCSLIB.ORG

A Future for Gopher Apples

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
A Future for Gopher Apples Page8, The PALMETTO,Spring 1992 ~ tJuturefor Gopher ~ppCes by Fritz Wettstein supply, get a good grade on my report card, and perhaps free up some time to go fishing. The Florida Native Plant Society Con- ference in Gainesville put me in touch with the right people. This group ad- vocated the benefits of native plants to water and energy resource conserva- tion and protection of Florida natural communities. More importantly, they were providing practical advice for realizing these ideals. During a seminar on the propagation of native plants, nurseryman Jim Haegar ofVero Beach described a native groundcover: low, drought-tolerant, evergreen, and fruit- bearing - the gopher apple. Imagine my delight when I realized that vengeance for the gopher tor- toise's untimely death could be at the hand of a plant named for the noble creatu reoI wanted to know more about it. Resembling suckers, or seedlings, of any of the common scrub oaks, this sub-shrub is inconspicuous when one walks by it. But from the car, driving to the beach and back, gopher apples could be seen as glossy, bright green patches fifty feet across wherever the grou nd was su n ny, sandy,and dry. I saw it at the beach, along road cuts, in pine flatwoods, and in vacant lots. Friends traveling with me usually stayed at the car while I went gopher apple hunting, inspecting each patch While driving S.R. 436 home from across 55 mph highways from then on, for flowers, fruit, or white fuzz on the Apopka on a sticky September after- I found it difficult to engage in grand undersides of the leaves. But they noon back in 1981, I resolved to be gestures of quixotic eco-heroism, could see how green and spreading the more than a casual observer of the loss tilting at windmills in the defense of low patch of upright leaves appeared, of wild things in central Florida. A nature against humankind. A coupleof and easily began picking them out for friend and I were stuck in traffic. The back-to-back dry summers in central me at 65 mph. light had changed, but nocars lurched Florida in the early 1980s,when the Once we dug one up and found that afternoon showers did not come like forward. A gopher tortoise was making the plant was actually a tree with all but its casual way across the six lane clockwork, put me on the water con- its twigs underground. Sweaty and highway, to the applause of some and servation bandwagon and on the side covered with yellow sandhill soil, we the irritation of others, when a Chevy of roadside wildflowers and native dug down seven plus feet and still did van coming up in the right turn lane plants. The condemnation of luxuries not get to the tip of the tap root. The struck it, sending it skittering onto the such as lawn irrigation systems was incredible tap root must be able to road shoulder. easy for a rebel college boy who had pump moisture out of the deepest Feeling good one second, then wasted many a su m mer day cutti ng the sands. We also noticed white and watching the smashing of a tortoise grass two times a week. With guidance orange fungal mycelia clinging to the next, with my friend beginning from Bill Partington, a Rollins professor the coarsely rooted underground at the time (and former Florida Native to cry and me beginning to smolder branches.These must help the plant - then is when I decided to do Plant Society director), I set off in attain moisture and nutrients in dry, search of drought-tolerant alternative something. sterile sands. But beyond helping 3 mph animals groundcovers to savethe future's water The plant fascinated me. I followed The PALMETTO,Spring 1992, Page9 it through the seasons: floweri ng (May Geobalanus oblongifolius (Michx.) in coils and then bury them in the through June) and fruiting (August Small - shares botanical features with ground. I also tried to propagate them through September). Gopher apple Rosaand Prunus, but morecloselywith by root cuttings and tissue culture. All stands often bloom profusely and at- coco-plum, Chrysobalanus icaco. were pretty much failures for me. tract small bees and other insects, but Prance distinguished gopher apple Gopher apple fruit (if you can find a and coco-plum from the Rosales by the many times they fail to set seed. When patch where the varmints are few) can presence of a style that emerges from the wh ite, oblong fru it does ri pen to its be collected in reasonable quantities, purple-tinged, softened maturity, it is the base of the ovary, silicate hairs, and cleaned of its gooey pulp, and planted hard to beat the varm i nts to them to get secondary xylem. immediately, and it will germinate. It a taste. Frankly, they can have them. The Licania and Chrysobalanus are the takes a couple years of weeding and apples, which to me have a sickly sweet only North American genera of the white fly and leaf spot control to grow if not quite rank taste, are the favorites pantropical family Chrysobalanaceae, a sizable landscape plant. It's not like of gopher tortoises and fox squirrels, which has seventeengenera and about a chunk of ground juniper that can be which movethe seedaround. Someof 430 species. Gopher apple is the most rooted and grown to salable size in two the seeds are then eaten by quail and temperate family member, found in growing seasons. Ten years after my journey started, rodents, and some become new sandhills, dry pinelands, and oak scrub stands. as far up the coast as North Carolina, however, quantities of gopher apple are Gopher apple, Licania michauxii and west to Louisiana. being marketed by severalof the larger Prance - formerly called Chrysoba- In addition to the fruit and growth Florida native nurseries. Janus obJongifoJius Michx. and habit, it is distinguished by terminal The plant is perhaps best used as an inflorescences of small white flowers, evergreen filler in a dry wildflower GROWING GOPHER APPLE a smooth, hard seed, and heavy white garden, although it may respond to in the NURSERY fuzz underneath many of the mature pruning and care as a traditional land- The most difficult part of growing oblong leaves.The variable presence or scape grou ndcover. I prefer the former gopher apples in the commercial nursery absence of these hairs have led some since cultivation of several seasons of is findingthe seed. One can go to hun- botaniststo concludethat two species short-lived wildflowers will allow the dreds of large patches and not find a of gopher apple exist; however, this distinctive glossy patches of green to single seed. The plant doesn't ruit as well variable condition exists on leaves ap- slowly fill in. in the shade as it does in the sun. Many parently of the same plant, and within Let'shope that a futu re for the gopher patchesof opherapples grow along the most habitats supports the premise apple will brighten the future for the roadside, flowering in the spring and that these are phenotypic variations gopher tortoise. ipening in September,but mowing wipes out the seed. within one species.As with the largely Seeds don't ripen all at once, but over underground growth habit, the hairy Fritz Wettstein is a landscape archi- a period of weeks. They are white or pink leaf undersides appear to be an adap- tect and a member of the Magnolia when ripe and smell like apples, but don't tation to survival in hot, dry sands. Chapter FNPS.He works for the De- be tempted to eat them because they are All pumped up with new-found partment of Natural Resources in not tasty! knowledge about this native plant, I Tallahassee. The seeds must be gathered when ripe tried growing it. Jim Haegar had because they won't ripen after picking. described ways to wrap the branches And, of course, it would not be in the best interestof the gopher apple to pick all the seeds in a patch. The seeds must be planted immedi- ately, because if the kernel dries in the sun, the embryo dies. The flesh around the seed must be scrapedoff. I rub them on hardware cloth, and then plant them in a large pot in a sandy mix with no peat, usually two seeds to a pot. Fertilize and water lightly; it's easy to over-water them. The seeds sprout right away, and can be sold after about six months when the Support Your Local Retail Nurseries. plantsare about6" tall and have six to eight leaves. After a year and a half, Ask for Native Trees they can be sold in gallon-size pots. Gopher apples are purchased for use Native Palms in gopher tortoise preserves to create or Native Shrubs and more enhancethe gopher tortoise habitat. They serve mostly as a curiosity as a landscape plant, perhaps mixed with wildflowers to create an evergreen patch. Bulldozed patches of gopher apples reveal dug-up roots as big around as your arm. It may be that large patches of gopher apples are really one plant that may be hundreds of years old. 17250 SOUTHWEST232 STREET.HOMESTEAD. FLORIDA 33170 (305) 247-4499 . David Drylie, ASLA.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Information to Users
    INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter face, while others may be from any type of computer printer. The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough, substandard margins, and improper alignment can adversely afreet reproduction. In the unlikely event that the author did not send UMI a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if unauthorized copyright material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Oversize materials (e.g., maps, drawings, charts) are reproduced by sectioning the original, beginning at the upper left-hand corner and continuing from left to right in equal sections with small overlaps. Each original is also photographed in one exposure and is included in reduced form at the back of the book. Photographs included in the original manuscript have been reproduced xerographically in this copy. Higher quality 6" x 9" black and white photographic prints are available for any photographs or illustrations appearing in this copy for an additional charge. Contact UMI directly to order. University Microfilms International A Bell & Howell Information Company 3 0 0 North Z eeb Road, Ann Arbor, Ml 4 8 1 06-1346 USA 313/761-4700 800/521-0600 Order Number 9130509 Allozyme variation and evolution inPolygonella (Polygonaceae) Lewis, Paul Ollin, Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 1991 Copyright ©1991 by Lewis, Paul Ollin.
    [Show full text]
  • (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) from Subterranean Stem Galls of Licania Michauxii (Chrysobalanaceae) in Florida
    University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory Entomology Collections, Miscellaneous 1996 A New Species of Gall Midge (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) from Subterranean Stem Galls of Licania Michauxii (Chrysobalanaceae) in Florida Raymond Gagne ARS, USDA Kenneth Hibbard Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Fort Pierce, FL Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/systentomologyusda Part of the Entomology Commons Gagne, Raymond and Hibbard, Kenneth, "A New Species of Gall Midge (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) from Subterranean Stem Galls of Licania Michauxii (Chrysobalanaceae) in Florida" (1996). USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory. 13. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/systentomologyusda/13 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Entomology Collections, Miscellaneous at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. 428 Florida Entomologist 79(3) September, 1996 A NEW SPECIES OF GALL MIDGE (DIPTERA: CECIDOMYIIDAE) FROM SUBTERRANEAN STEM GALLS OF LICANIA MICHAUXII (CHRYSOBALANACEAE) IN FLORIDA RAYMOND J. GAGNÉ1 AND KENNETH L. HIBBARD2 1Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI, ARS, USDA c/o National Museum of Natural History MRC-168 Washington, D. C. 20560 2Division of Plant Industry Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Fort Pierce, FL 34945-3045 ABSTRACT A new species of gall midge is described from subterranean stem galls on Licania michauxii Prance from Florida. The gall former is a new species of Lopesia and the first record of this genus in North America. The limits of Lopesia, a genus previously recorded only from South America and Africa, are enlarged to accept the new species.
    [Show full text]
  • Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, Working Draft of 17 March 2004 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY
    Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, Working Draft of 17 March 2004 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY BIBLIOGRAPHY Ackerfield, J., and J. Wen. 2002. A morphometric analysis of Hedera L. (the ivy genus, Araliaceae) and its taxonomic implications. Adansonia 24: 197-212. Adams, P. 1961. Observations on the Sagittaria subulata complex. Rhodora 63: 247-265. Adams, R.M. II, and W.J. Dress. 1982. Nodding Lilium species of eastern North America (Liliaceae). Baileya 21: 165-188. Adams, R.P. 1986. Geographic variation in Juniperus silicicola and J. virginiana of the Southeastern United States: multivariant analyses of morphology and terpenoids. Taxon 35: 31-75. ------. 1995. Revisionary study of Caribbean species of Juniperus (Cupressaceae). Phytologia 78: 134-150. ------, and T. Demeke. 1993. Systematic relationships in Juniperus based on random amplified polymorphic DNAs (RAPDs). Taxon 42: 553-571. Adams, W.P. 1957. A revision of the genus Ascyrum (Hypericaceae). Rhodora 59: 73-95. ------. 1962. Studies in the Guttiferae. I. A synopsis of Hypericum section Myriandra. Contr. Gray Herbarium Harv. 182: 1-51. ------, and N.K.B. Robson. 1961. A re-evaluation of the generic status of Ascyrum and Crookea (Guttiferae). Rhodora 63: 10-16. Adams, W.P. 1973. Clusiaceae of the southeastern United States. J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 89: 62-71. Adler, L. 1999. Polygonum perfoliatum (mile-a-minute weed). Chinquapin 7: 4. Aedo, C., J.J. Aldasoro, and C. Navarro. 1998. Taxonomic revision of Geranium sections Batrachioidea and Divaricata (Geraniaceae). Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85: 594-630. Affolter, J.M. 1985. A monograph of the genus Lilaeopsis (Umbelliferae). Systematic Bot. Monographs 6. Ahles, H.E., and A.E.
    [Show full text]
  • In the Flora of South Florida
    . PlQt!JRe?\ATE Report T-558 Endemic Taxa,-inthe Flora of South Florida*' NATIONAL Y Everglades National Park, South Florida Research Center, P.O. Box 279, Homestead, Florida 33030 I, ,. ,. ,#< Endemic Taxa in the Flora of South Florida " - Report T-558 George N. Avery and Lloyd L. Loope . U.S. National Park Service ' South Florida Research Center Everglades National Park Homestead, Florida 33030 July 1980 . Avery, George N. and Lloyd L. Loope. 1980. ~ndemicTaxa in the Flora of South Florida. South Florida Research Center Report T-558. 39 pp. Endemic Taxa in the Flora of South Florida TABLE OF CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION . 1 LITERATURE ON SOUTH FLORIDA ENDEMICS . METHODS . rr , ANNOTATED LIST OF THE ENDEMIC SOUTH FLORIDA FLORA . DISCUSSION. I . \ '& ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................ LITERATURE CITED . 18 Table 1. Habitat and conservation status of endemic plant taxa of.SoutH Florida . .. 6. Table 2. Number of endemics found in selected vegetation categories . APPENDIX I - Annotated ,version of Robertson's (1955) list of South Florida endemics, showing .diff erences from our list . : Endemic Taxa in the Flora of South Florida George N. Avery and kloyd L. Loope , INTRODUCTION The island-like tropical area of South Florida possesses a very remarkable flora by North American standards, with a high percentage of species having tropical affinities and with fairly high local endemism. Hundreds of plant species known from the United States are found only in Florida south of Lake Okeechobee. Many of these species occur on various Caribbean islands and elsewhere in the Neotropics. This report treats those taxa endemic to South Florida, occurring in peninsular Florida southbf Lake Okeechobee and/or on the Florida Keys, and found nowhere else.
    [Show full text]
  • Vegetation Monitoring at Six Northwest Florida Water Management District Mitigation Sites Fall 2018
    Vegetation Monitoring at Six Northwest Florida Water Management District Mitigation Sites Fall 2018 Kimberely Gulledge Brenda Herring Amy Jenkins Jenna Annis Frank Price December 2018 Florida Natural Area Inventory 1018 Thomasville Road, Suite 200-C Tallahassee, FL 32303 Dan Hipes, Director Funding for this project was provided by the Northwest Florida Water Management District under the agreement PO#00190012-000 with the Florida Natural Areas Inventory Florida State University This document contains separate qualitative and quantitative vegetation monitoring reports for six mitigation sites managed by the Northwest Florida Water Management District: 1) Perdido River Water Management Area – Phase II in Escambia County 2) Lafayette Creek – Phase I in Walton County 3) Plum Creek at Holmes Creek in Washington County 4) Ward Creek West in Bay County 5) Dutex West in Escambia County 6) Yellow River Ranch in Santa Rosa County Taxonomy follows Wunderlin, R. P., B.F. Hansen, A.R. Franck, and F.B. Essig. 2017. Atlas of Florida Plants (htpp://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/), Institute for Systematic Botany, University of South Florida, Tampa. In the summer of 2017 the Florida Natural Areas Inventory (FNAI) incorporated recent changes in scientific plant names found on this website. The resulting changes in scientific names from those used in the 2016 and prior reports are listed below. 2016 Name 2017 Name Common Name Aristida stricta var. beyrichiana Aristida stricta wiregrass Asimina angustifolia Asimina spatulata pawpaw Cyperus retrorsus Cyperus ovatus pinebarren flatsedge Galactia volubilis or regularis Galactia minor leafy milkpea Gaura angustifolia Oenothera simulans southern beeblossum Gratiola pilosa Sophronanthe pilosa shaggy hedgehyssop Leucothoe racemosa Eubotrys racemosus swamp doghobble Licania michauxii Geobalanus oblongifolius gopher apple Muhlenbergia expansa Muhlenbergia capillaris var.
    [Show full text]
  • Rare Vascular Plant Taxa Associated with the Longleaf Pine Ecosystems: Patterns in Taxonomy and Ecology
    Rare Vascular Plant Taxa Associated with the Longleaf Pine Ecosystems: Patterns in Taxonomy and Ecology Joan Walker U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, Department of Forest Resources, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634 ABSTRACT Ecological, taxonomic and biogeographical characteristics are used to describe the group of 187 rare vascular plant taxa associated with longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) throughout its range. Taxonomic and growth form distributions mirror the patterns of common plus rare taxa in the flora. Most of the species have rather narrow habitat preferences, and narrow geo­ graphic ranges, but a few rare sp~cies with broad habitat tolerances and wider geographic ranges are identified. Ninety-six local endemics are associated with longleaf pine ecosystems. This incidence is as high as in other comparably-sized endemic-rich areas in North America. A distinct geographic trend in rare species composition is indicated. Species fall into 4 groups: Florida longleaf associates, south Atlantic coastal plain, east Gulf coastal plain, and west Gulf coastal plain species. Distributional factors that produce rarity must be considered in the development of conser­ vation strategies. Overall, conserving longleaf communities rangewide will protect .large ~ numbers of rare plant taxa in Southeastern United States. INTRODUCTION 1986), and inevitably the strategies required to con­ serve them will differ. Recently Hardin and White (1989) effectively focused conservationists' attentions on the high The purposes of this study are to (1) identify numbers of rare species associated with wiregrass the rare species associated with longleaf pine eco­ (Aristida stricta), a grass that dominates the ground systems rangewide; (2) characterize the rare spe­ layer of longleaf communities through a large part cies taxonomically and ecologically, in order to of its range, and over a broad range of longleaf identify patterns that may distinguish this group habitats.
    [Show full text]
  • Unraveling the Biogeographical History of Chrysobalanaceae from Plastid Genomes1
    RESEARCH ARTICLE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY Unraveling the biogeographical history of Chrysobalanaceae from plastid genomes1 Léa Bardon 2 , Cynthia Sothers 3 , Ghillean T. Prance 3 , Pierre-Jean G. Malé 4 , Zhenxiang Xi 5 , Charles C. Davis 5 , Jerome Murienne 2 , Roosevelt García-Villacorta 6 , Eric Coissac 7 , Sébastien Lavergne 7 , and Jérôme Chave 2,8 PREMISE OF THE STUDY: The complex geological and climatic history of the Neotropics has had major implications on the diversifi cation of plant lineages. Chrysobalanaceae is a pantropical family of trees and shrubs with 75% of its 531 species found in the Neotropics, and a time-calibrated phylogeny of this family should shed light on the tempo of diversifi cation in the Neotropical fl ora. Previously published phylogenetic hypotheses of this family were poorly supported, and its biogeography remains unclear. METHODS: We assembled the complete plastid genome of 51 Chrysobalanaceae species, and increased taxon sampling by Sanger-sequencing of fi ve plastid regions for an additional 88 species. We generated a time-calibrated tree including all 139 Chrsyobalanaceae species and 23 outgroups. We then conducted an ancestral area reconstruction analysis and estimated diversifi cation rates in the family. KEY RESULTS: The tree generated with the plastid genome alignment was almost fully resolved. It supports the polyphyly of Licania and Hirtella . The family has diversifi ed starting around the Eocene-Oligocene transition. An ancestral area reconstruction confi rms a Paleotropical origin for Chrysobalanaceae with several transoceanic dispersal events. The main Neotropical clade likely resulted from a single migration event from Africa around 28 mya ago, which subsequently underwent rapid diversifi cation.
    [Show full text]
  • Draft Biological Evaluation Columbia County and Plum Creek Land
    United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Draft Biological Evaluation for the Columbia County and Plum Creek Land Exchange U.S. Forest Service National Forests in Florida Baker, Columbia and Union Counties, Florida Prepared by: Jason Drake, Ecologist, National Forests in Florida [email protected], 850-523-8560 and Jeff Gainey, Wildlife Program Manager, National Forests in Florida [email protected], 850-523-8553 June 2014 National Forests in Florida Columbia Co. and Plum Creek Land Exchange I. Introduction This Biological Evaluation (BE) summarizes and documents the process and makes determinations regarding the effects on the Regional Forester’s Sensitive Species (RFSS) of the Osceola National Forest for management activities as proposed within the Columbia County and Plum Creek Land Exchange (CCPLE) Project. The proposed project would convey a 6.3 acre right-of-way easement on the Osceola NF (“Rail Spur Area”) to Columbia county for construction of a rail spur connecting to the adjacent RACEC Catalyst Project site in exchange for a 6.3 acre permanent easement for the Florida National Scenic Trail along the western perimeter of Plum Creek’s land (“FNST Area”). The affected areas are shown on the maps in Sections II and III of this document. A complete description of the proposed action is in the Environmental Assessment for this project, available with supporting document on the project website (http://goo.gl/aID2s4). All U.S. Forest Service planned, funded, executed, and or permitted programs and activities require a biological evaluation (BE) as outlined in Forest Manual (FSM) Section 2672.41. A separate Biological Assessment documenting the effects of the proposed exchange on species listed under the Endangered Species Act was prepared for consultation with the U.S.
    [Show full text]
  • Florida Scrub Is a Plant Community Easily Recognized
    Florida Scrub Including Scrubby Flatwoods and Scrubby High Pine lorida scrub is a plant community easily recognized FNAI Global Rank: G2/G3 by the dominance of evergreen shrubs and frequent FNAI State Rank: S2 Fpatches of bare, white sand. With more than two Federally Listed Species in S. FL: 32 dozen threatened and endangered species dependent upon scrub, the entire community is itself endangered. Recovery State Listed Species in S. FL: 100 of the community and its associated plants and animals will depend upon land acquisition and effective land Florida scrub. Original photograph courtesy of The management. Nature Conservancy. Synonymy Florida scrub in its various phases has been called xeric scrub, sand scrub, big scrub, sand pine scrub, oak scrub, evergreen oak scrub, dune oak scrub, evergreen scrub forest, slash pine scrub, palmetto scrub, rosemary scrub, and rosemary bald. Florida scrubs may be classified as coastal or interior. Scrubs are often named by the dominant plant species, as in rosemary scrub, sand pine scrub, palmetto scrub, or oak scrub. Some authors have confused closed-canopy forests of sand pine trees with scrub. Scrubs that are very recent in origin, usually a result of mans activities, are called pioneer scrubs. Communities intermediate between scrub and pine flatwoods have been called dry or xeric flatwoods but now are referred to as scrubby flatwoods. Communities intermediate between scrub and high pine have been called southern ridge sandhills, hickory scrub, yellow sand scrub, turkey oak scrub, turkey oak barrens, and natural turkey oak barrens, but probably are best referred to as scrubby high pine.
    [Show full text]
  • NED GLENN NATURE PRESERVE Southwest 87 Avenue Sz SW 190 Street Miami, Dade County, Florida
    -Pal& erltricffy..1-2f 11611- IqE D CHECKLIST OF VASCULAR PLANTS NED GLENN NATURE PRESERVE Southwest 87 Avenue Sz SW 190 Street Miami, Dade County, Florida The following is a comprehensive listing of vascular plants which occur at the Ned Glenn Nature Preserve. Botanical nomenclature generally follows Kartesz (1994), and synonyms have been added where necessary to avoid taxonomic confusion. The listing is arranged alphabetically by plant family. Ferns & fern allies are all listed under Pteridoplzyta. KEY TO SYMBOLS X = NATURALIZED EXOTIC SPECIES EN = SOUTH FLORIDA ENDEM1t SPECIES FE = FEDERALLY ENDANGERED SPECIES SE = STATE ENDANGERED SPECIES ST = STATE THREATENED SPECIES CE = COMMERCIALLY EXPLOITED SPECIES ACANTHACEAE - Acanthus Family X Blechum pyramidatum green shrimp-plant (Blechum brownei) EN Dyschoriste angusta twinflower (Dyschoriste oblongifolia var. angusta) Ruellia succulenta wild petunia (Ruellia caroliniensis subsp caroliniensis var. succulenta; R. caroliniensis subsp. ciliosa var. heteromorpha) AGAVACEAE - Agave Family Agave decipiens false sisal AIVIARANTHACEAE - Amaranth Family X Amaranthus spinosus spiny amaranth ANACARDIACEAE - Cashew Family Metopium toxiferum poisonwood Rhus copallina var. leucantha southern sumac X Schinus terebinthifolius brazilian pepper Toxicodendron radicans subsp. radicans poison-ivy APOCYNACEAE - Oleander Family Angadenia berteroi pineland allamanda (Angadenia berterii; A. sagraei) X Catharanthus roseus madagascar periwinkle Echites umbellata var. umbellata devil's-potato ARALIACEAE - Aralia Family
    [Show full text]
  • Chrysobalanaceae) Para a Flora Da Bahia, Brasil
    RENATA CAMARGO ASPRINO PEREIRA HIRTELLA L. (CHRYSOBALANACEAE) PARA A FLORA DA BAHIA, BRASIL FEIRA DE SANTANA, BAHIA 2016 Hirtella glandulosa Spreng. Foto: Maria Alves, 2014 UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE FEIRA DE SANTANA DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM BOTÂNICA HIRTELLA L. (CHRYSOBALANACEAE) PARA A FLORA DA BAHIA, BRASIL RENATA CAMARGO ASPRINO PEREIRA Dissertação apresentada ao Programa de Pós- Graduação em Botânica da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana como parte dos requisitos para a obtenção do título de Mestre em Botânica. Orientador: Prof. Dr. André Marcio Araújo Amorim (UESC) Feira de Santana, Bahia 2016 BANCA EXAMINADORA ____________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Márcio Lacerda Lopes Martins Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB) ____________________________________________________ Profa. Dra. Nádia Roque Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) ____________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. André Márcio Araújo Amorim Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (UESC) Orientador e Presidente da Banca Feira de Santana, Bahia 2016 Ficha Catalográfica – Biblioteca Central Julieta Carteado Pereira, Renata Camargo Asprino P181hHirtella L. (Chrysobalanaceae) para a flora da Bahia, Brasil / Renata Camargo Asprino Pereira. – Feira de Santana, 2016. 118 f. : il. Orientador: André Marcio Araújo Amorim. Dissertação (mestrado) – Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Botânica, 2016. 1. Hirtella – Taxonomia. 2. Florística – Bahia. I. Amorim, André Marcio Araújo, orient. II. Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana. III. Título. CDU: 582.5 Para os deuses as coisas são mais coisas. Não mais longe eles vêem, mas mais claro Na certa Natureza E a contornada vida... Não no vago que mal vêem Orla misteriosamente os seres, Mas nos detalhes claros estão seus olhos. A Natureza é só uma superfície.
    [Show full text]
  • Download Download
    A FLORISTIC INVENTORY OF THE HOLMES AVENUE TRACT (HIGHLANDS COUNTY), FLORIDA, U.S.A. George J. Wilder Jean M. McCollom Naples Botanical Garden Natural Ecosystems 4820 Bayshore Drive 985 Sanctuary Road Naples, Florida 34112-7336, U.S.A. Naples, Florida 34120-4800, U.S.A. [email protected] [email protected] Nancy J. Bissett The Natives, Inc. 2929 JB Carter Road Davenport, Florida 33837, U.S.A. [email protected] ABSTRACT Documented presently as growing wild within the Holmes Avenue Tract (Highlands Co., Florida, U.S.A) are individuals of 106 families, 282 genera, 464 species, and 478 infrageneric taxa of vascular plants. Of the 478 infrageneric taxa documented presently, 386 (80.8%) are native and 36 (7.5%) are endemic to Florida. Herein, seven main kinds of habitats are recognized for the study area, and individual taxa inhabit one or more of those habitats. Twenty-four presently reported infrageneric taxa are listed as Endangered (18 taxa) or Threatened (6 taxa) in Florida. Based on Wunderlin et al. (2019), 36 species plus one variety are newly reported for Highlands County. RESUMEN Hay ejemplares documentados actualmente que crecen en la Holmes Avenue Tract (Highlands Co., Florida, U.S.A) de 106 familias, 282 géneros, 464 especies, y 478 taxa infragenéricos de plantas vasculares. De los 478 taxa infragenéricos documentados actualmente, 386 (80.8%) son nativos y 36 (7.5%) endémicos de Florida. Se reconocen siete tipos principales de hábitats en el área de estudio, y taxa individu- ales viven en uno o más de esos hábitats. Veinticuatro taxa infragenéricos de los citados ahora están listados como en Peligro (18 taxa) o Amenazados (6 taxa) en Florida.
    [Show full text]