Family: Asteraceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Shrub
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: South Florida, the West Indies and southern Mexico (Yucatan peninsula).
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
State of Florida Status:
Endangered
Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status:
Presumed Extirpated or Extinct
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Presumed Extirpated or Extinct in the Wild
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
South Florida History and Distribution: Ranked as presumed extirpated in Rare Plants of South Florida (
Gann et al. 2002; p 60) based on several collections between 1904 and 1915 from Brickell Hammock just south of the Miami River. Other
Baccharis taxa have often been misidentified as this (Gann et al. 2002,
Franck et al. 2020). A recent observation on
iNaturalist has been suggested to be this, and it does resemble this species, but not all leaves are entire (Gann 2022 on
iNaturalist). To date, flowering has not been observed; it is possibly a hybrid between other native
Baccharis taxa. This species is now commonly cultivated in South Florida from West Indian germplasm, but no naturalized populations are currently known.
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
