Family: Lauraceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Tree
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: Southeastern United States.
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Rare
Map of South Florida Locations
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
Comments: Visit our
Natives For Your Neighborhood website for more information and images. For a digitized image of Elbert Little's Florida range map of P. borbonia in the broad sense, visit the
Exploring Florida website. This map represents an amalgamation of P. borbonia from coastal and mesic sites, P. humilis from wetlands, and P. humilis from scrub and other dry habitats.
FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence:
Reported
Map of Florida Keys Locations
Florida Keys History and Distribution: Not reported for the Florida Keys by John Kunkel Small in 1913. Reported for Big Pine Key (Big Pine Key Botanical Society, 1987), but this is likely a misidentification of
P. palustris.
