Family: Bromeliaceae
Group: Monocot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Herb
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Not Native, Naturalized
Native Range:
South America; widely cultivated and sometimes naturalized.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Not listed by Britton & Millspaugh (1920). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 271-273, with illustrations), for open coppices, rocky open soils and abandoned cultivated areas in the northwestern Commonwealth (region 9). Introduced from South America.
