Notes on Florida’s Endangered and Threatened Plants¹

Bold type indicates that the species is on the federal list of endangered or threatened plants.
The date of inclusion as a federally listed plant is provided immediately following the scientific name.

When there are illustrations in commonly available references a symbol (? or ?) is placed in the lower left corner. Page numbers are given for Bell and Taylor (1982), Scurlock (1987), and Taylor (1992). Photographs in the DPI poster and in Nelson (1994) are cited by plate number. There are no page numbers for Chafin (2000) or for Wunderlin and Hansen (2000) For additional photos,check the atlas website of Wunderlin and Hansen; many species will have photographs.

If the species is considered endemic to Florida (95% of all known occurrences are in Florida), then the term "endemic" is given in the lower right corner.
Range distribution was obtained from Gleason and Cronquist (1991), Radford et al. (1968), Luer (1984), and Correll and Correll (1978), and other sources.

If line drawings are present in a reference, the symbol { is shown.
Small (1934) provides excellent illustrations, but these usually show only floral details. Other illustrations are often detailed and show plant habit as well as floral and fruit details. The | symbol indicates that a photograph is present. Lakela and Long (1976) has black and white photographs

COMMON NAMES:
these are names used in the vernacular.
Sometimes the common name is descriptive and very useful.
However, the common names are often confusing because the same name may be used for different taxa, or a species may have many different common names. This listing of common names is not meant to be exhaustive.

• Palmae or Arecaceae
• Gramineae or Poaceae
• Cruciferae or Brassicaceae
• Leguminosae or Fabaceae
• Guttiferae or Clusiaceae
• Umbelliferae or Apiaceae
• Labiatae or Lamiaceae
• Compositae or Asteraceae

Common names for the families usually follow Lawrence (1951).
The division for Leguminosae into three subfamilies corresponds to Mabberley (1997).
The tribes for the Compositae complies with Cronquist (1980).
Common names for pteridophyte families are found in several sources, including FNA.

• tree
• shrub
• vine
• annual herb
• perennial herb

1. stem characters
2. leaf characters
3. flower characters
4. fruit characters
5. habitat
6. locale
7. time of bloom

• lvs = leaves
• lflets = leaflets
• cpd = compound
• infl = inflorescence
• flrs = flowers
• frts = fruits
• cos. = counties

The Florida Natural Areas Inventory (FNAI 1996) was used for habitat designations as were the referenced manuals and guides.   Some of the habitats may sound esoteric, but are usually very appropriate.   As an example, the “solution holes in rockland hammocks” mentioned in description of Anemia wrightii refer to dissolved areas in the limestone substrate of the rockland hammock habitat.
When a county is not listed by the Atlas, the county is shown within parentheses.