Family: Cyperaceae
Group: Monocot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Herb
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: South Florida and the West Indies.
NatureServe Global Status:
Rare
State of Florida Status:
Endangered
Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status:
Critically Imperiled
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Imperiled
Map of South Florida Locations
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 404-406) based on three occurrences in two protected areas and one non-protected area. This species is now known from eight protected areas and was reranked as imperiled using updated NatureServe criteria.
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
Comments: Although ranked as critically imperliled by IRC in Rare Plants of South Florida (Gann, Bradley and Woodmansee 2002), a number of new populations have been discovered since 2002 and additional herbarium specimens have become available leading to the downranking of this to imperiled in 2014. Updated NatureServe criteria were used.
For more images, click on the Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants link below.
For a specimen image, visit the
New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium.
Synonyms:
C. filiformis [misapplied].
FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence:
Present
FLORIDA KEYS Native Status:
Native
IRC FLORIDA KEYS Status:
Critically Imperiled
Map of Florida Keys Locations
Florida Keys History and Distribution: First collected between 1838 and 1853 by John Loomis Blodgett on the island of Key West. Reported in
1913 by John Kunkel Small for open hammocks and sandy places on the island of Key West. Recently disovered by George D. Gann on Stock Island adjacent to the island of Key West. Also recently discovered on Lignumvitae Key. We consider this native and extant in the middle Keys and lower Keys. For more information on C. floridanus in South Florida, see IRC's
species account.
