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Floristic Inventory of the Florida Keys Database Online

Chamaecrista deeringiana Small & Pennell
Deering partridge pea

Chamaecrista deeringiana
Copyright by: James Johnson, 2014
In habitat, Everglades National Park, Florida
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Family: Fabaceae

Group: Dicot

Substrate: Terrestrial

Habit: Shrub

Perennation: Perennial

Native Range: Endemic to South Florida.

IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status: Imperiled

Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida

SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence: Present

SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status: Native

South Florida History and Distribution: This native wildflower is currently known in South Florida only from pine rocklands on the Miami Rock Ridge; it is possible extirpated in the lower Florida Keys and in Big Cypress National Preserve. Using modern NatureServe criteria, we re-ranked this as Imperiled in South Florida in April 2020.

SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status: Cultivated

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Synonyms: C. brachiata, misapplied.

FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence: Presumed Extirpated

FLORIDA KEYS Native Status: Presumed Extirpated

IRC FLORIDA KEYS Status: Presumed Extirpated

Map of select IRC data for the Florida Keys

Florida Keys History and Distribution: Collected once by John Kunkel Small in 1912 (3781 NY) on Big Pine Key. Also reported by Small in 1913 for pinelands in the lower Keys. No recent records are known.

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Chamaecrista deeringiana has been reported for the following habitat in THE FLORIDA KEYS :
Pine Rockland


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Chamaecrista deeringiana
Copyright by: James Johnson, 2014
In habitat, Everglades National Park, Florida
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Chamaecrista deeringiana
Copyright by: George D. Gann, 2015
In habitat, Long Pine Key, Everglades National Park, Florida

Chamaecrista deeringiana
Copyright by: George D. Gann, 2015
In habitat, Long Pine Key, Everglades National Park, Florida

Chamaecrista deeringiana
Copyright by: Roger L. Hammer