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Floristic Inventory of the Florida Keys Database Online

Strumpfia maritima Jacq.
Pride-of-Big-Pine

Strumpfia maritima
Copyright by: Roger L. Hammer

Family: Rubiaceae

Group: Dicot

Substrate: Terrestrial

Habit: Shrub

Perennation: Perennial

Native Range: South Florida, the West Indies, southern Mexico (Quintana Roo) and South America (Venezuela).

NatureServe Global Status: Apparently Secure

State of Florida Status: Endangered

Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status: Critically Imperiled

IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status: Critically Imperiled

Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida

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 535-537) based on three extant occurrences in two conservation areas (National Key Deer Refuge; Sugarloaf Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area) and one non-conservation area (Grassy Key Pride-of-Big-Pine Site) in the Monroe County Keys. In 2005, plants were also located in the Middle Torch Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area. The Grassy Key site is now part of the Florida Forever BOT Florida Keys Ecosystem Project.

SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status: Cultivated

Comments: See also Florida Natural Areas Inventory's Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Florida page (Chafin 2000).

FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence: Present

FLORIDA KEYS Native Status: Native

IRC FLORIDA KEYS Status: Imperiled

Map of select IRC data for the Florida Keys

Florida Keys History and Distribution: First collected between 1838 and 1853 by John Loomis Blodgett on Big Pine Key.  Reported in 1913 by John Kunkel Small for hammocks and sand dunes from the upper Keys to the lower Keys, but Small's definition of the upper Keys included the middle and lower Keys south and west to West Sumerland Key.  We consider this native and extant in the middle and lower Keys.  For more information on S. maritima in the Florida Keys, see IRC's species account.

Other data on Strumpfia maritima available from :


Strumpfia maritima has been reported from the following 2 conservation areas in the FLORIDA KEYS :
Occurrence Native Status
National Key Deer Refuge Present Native
Sugarloaf Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area Present Native




Strumpfia maritima has been reported for the following 2 habitats in THE FLORIDA KEYS :
Coastal Berm
Pine Rockland


All Images:

Strumpfia maritima
Copyright by: Roger L. Hammer

Strumpfia maritima
Copyright by: George D. Gann
in habitat, southwestern Puerto Rico, 2009

Strumpfia maritima
Copyright by: George D. Gann
in habitat, Dominican Republic, 2011

Strumpfia maritima
Copyright by: George D. Gann
in habitat, Dominican Republic, 2011