Family: Cannabaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Vine
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: Peninsular Florida, the West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America. Also reported for Texas and Alabama, presumably in error.
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
NatureServe Global Status:
Secure
State of Florida Status:
Endangered
Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status:
Critically Imperiled
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Critically Imperiled
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
South Florida History and Distribution: Ranked as critically imperiled in Rare Plants of South Florida (
Gann et al. 2002; pp 231-233) based on one occurrence at Mound Key Archaeological State Park. This species is still known from that site and has been discovered in several other protected areas since 2002.
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Not Cultivated
Comments: Iguana hackberry can grown as a tree, shrub or woody vine. In Florida, it appears that the most typical habit is that of a scandent woody vine.
Dismal Key, where iguana hackberry is present, is part of both the Cape Romano - Ten Thousand Islands Aquatic Preserve and Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge. Cape Romano - Ten Thousand Islands Aquatic Preserve is, in turn, part of the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Iguana hackberry is acually known from only four extant locations.
See also, IRC’s report
Vascular plant species of management concern in Everglades National Park (Gann 2015), page 39.
