Family: Malvaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Shrub
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: Scattered in the southern United States (peninsular Florida west to Texas), West Indies (Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles), Mexico, and Central America.
Map of Florida Locations
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Assumed to be Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Undetermined Nativity
South Florida History and Distribution: Although within native range in South Florida, it has been collected only once in 1998 growing along a fenceline in southern Miami-Dade County (
Bradley 1683 USF; as
A. theophrasti), and reported in 2021 on
iNaturalist by Alan Franck.
