Family: Asteraceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Preliminary IRC Status:
Apparently Secure
Native Range:
Endemic to the West Indies (Bahamas, Cuba, Cayman Islands).
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 1527-1529, with illustrations) as usually in the vicinity of the coast, on rocks, dunes, beaches, coppices, and sometimes pinelands nearly throughouth the Archipelago (regions 10-8, 6, 4-1).
Comments:
There is an illustration in Correll & Correll (1982: 1529).
For a specimen image, visit the
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium.
