Notes on Florida’s Endangered and Threatened Plants1
4th Edition, August 2003
Nancy C. Coile2
updated by Mark A. Garland3
Commercially Exploited Plant List
| SCIENTIFIC NAME | REFERENCES | COMMON NAME | FAMILY | DESCRIPTIONS |
| 1. Encyclia tampensis (Lindl.) Small
| Taylor, p. 301; DPI poster, plate #53 FL and West Indies |
Correll and Correll, 363-364
Long and Lakela, 332 Luer, 196-199| Small, 391-392{ Wunderlin, 235 |
Florida butterfly orchid | Orchidaceae;
orchid family |
epiphyte; pseudobulbs dark green, to 7 cm long; lvs 1 to 3, linear-lanceolate, to 40 cm long and 2 cm wide, keeled; flrs yellow-green, or brownish, whitish, purplish, lip usually whitish with magenta spot or stripes, numerous, lip 3-lobed, size variable; mangrove, cypress and hardwood swamps and hammocks; Levy, Lake and Flagler cos. southward; June-July, all year. |
| 2. Epidendrum conopseum R.Br. ex Aiton
| Bell and Taylor, p. 30 NC, SC, GA, AL, MS, LA, FL, Mexico |
Clewell, 185
Luer, 208-209| Radford et al., 352-353 Small, 391, as
Wunderlin, 236 |
green-fly orchid | Orchidaceae;
orchid family |
epiphyte; stems to 30 cm; lvs w to 3, to 10 cm long and 15 mm wide; flrs yellow-green, suffused with purple, column slender; cypress and hardwood swamps, moist hammocks; Escambia to Duval, south to Manatee, Hardee, Highlands and Brevard cos.; all year. |
| 3. Lycopodium cernuum L.
FNA uses: Palhinhaea cernua (L.) Vasc. and Franco Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Sermoli-Pichi SC, GA, AL, MS, LA, FL; tropics of both hemispheres; New Zealand, Japan, Cape Province, Azores |
Clewell, 42
FNA, 33 Lakela and Long, 19,20{ Long and Lakela, 64-65 Small: ferns, 418-421{ Wunderlin, 34 |
nodding club-moss
staghorn clubmoss
[probably the world's most abundant club-moss, according to FNA] |
Pteridophyta--
Lycopodiaceae; club-moss family
|
resembles a tiny Christmas tree; horizontal stems with spaced needle-like lvs, upright stems to 45 cm, lvs to 2.5 mm long, upcurved at tips; cones on tips of branches, nodding, to 8 mm long and 2 mm wide; wet depressions, ditches, moist areas; Escambia to Duval, south to Monroe and Broward cos. |
| 4. Osmunda cinnamomea L.
| Bell and Taylor, p.4 N.B., Nfld, N.S., Ont., PEI, Que.; ME south to FL, west to MN, IA, MO, TX; West Indies, Mexico, Central and South America, Asia |
Clewell, 44
FNA, 108 Lakela and Long, 45-46| Small: ferns, 342-344{ Wunderlin, 38 |
cinnamon fern | Pteridophyta--
Osmundaceae; royal fern family |
Lvs erect, to 1.5 m tall; pinnately cpd, pinnae with tuft of hair at base; fertile fronds separate and with clusters of cinnamon colored sporangia; swamps and wetlands; Escambia to Duval, south to Broward and Collier cos. |
| 5. Osmunda regalis L.
var. spectabilis (Willd.) A. Gray | Bell and Taylor, p. 4 N.B., Nfld, N.S., Ont., PEI, Que.; ME south to FL, west to MN, IA, MO, OK, TX (NOTE: 3 (or 4) other varieties have wider distribution.) |
Clewell, 44
FNA, 109 Lakela and Long, 47,48{ Small: ferns, 340-342{ Wunderlin, 38 |
royal fern
flowering-fern snake-fern king's fern osmunde royale |
Pteridophyta--
Osmundaceae; royal fern family |
Lvs erect, to 1.5 m tall; twice pinnately cpd, no tufts at base of pinnae, pinnae quite separate from each other; fertile pinnae occur at tips of fronds; swamps and wetlands; Escambia to Duval, south to Monroe and Dade cos. |
| 6. Rhapidophyllum hystrix (Pursh) Wendl.
and Drude
SC, GA, AL, MS, FL |
Clewell, 189
Godfrey, 78-80{ Small, 243{ Wunderlin, 181 |
needle palm
blue-palmetto vegetable porcupine |
Palmae/
Arecaceae; palm family |
Underground stems; lvs palmate, silvery below, petioles with long slender needles; fruits cluster amid the petioles and needles; river bluffs, ravine slopes, hammocks, bottomlands; Escambia to Volusia, south to Highlands and Manatee cos. |
| 7. Rhododendron canescens (Michaux)
Sweet
| Bell and Taylor, p. 84; Taylor, p. 227 DE, MD, south to FL, west to TX, OK, AR, TN |
Clewell 351,
Godfrey 264-265{ Radford et al., 799-800 Small, 995 Wunderlin, 478 |
pink azalea
southern pinxterbloom Piedmont azalea bush honeysuckle hoary azalea |
Ericaceae;
heath family |
Shrub to 5 m tall; lvs deciduous, 4-10 cm long, soft pubescent beneath; flrs appear before (or with) new leaves, fragrant, hairy, corollas 2.5-4.5 cm long, pink to whitish, 5 stamens about 3 times longer than the tubes; wet to well-drained woodlands with acidic soil; Escambia to Duval, Alachua and Marion cos.; spring. |
| 8. all native species of Zamia
[=Zamia pumila L.]
| Bell and Taylor, p. 6 2 counties in GA, FL, West Indies |
Clewell, 54
Correll and Correll, 58-60{ Godfrey, 66-68{ Long and Lakela, 108-110 Small, 1-2{ Wunderlin, 61 |
coontie
wild sago FL-arrowroot contis compties comfort-root Bay-rush |
Gymnospermae--
Cycadopsida: Zamiaceae; cycad family |
Separate and plants; stem underground; lvs evergreen, pinnately cpd, circinate in bud, leathery and stiff; cones 6-10 cm (sometimes to 20 cm) tall, scale faces 1-3 cm wide, 2 orange or red seeds per scale; well-drained sandy or loamy soils; Dade, Monroe, north to Dixie, Suwannee and St. Johns cos. |
- Florida Department of Agriclture and Consumer Services, Bureau of Entomology, Nematology, and Plant Pathology - Botany Section, Contribution No. 38, 4th edition (digital version), 2003.
- Botanist Emeritus, FDACS, Division of Plant Industry.
- Botanist, FDACS, Division of Plant Industry, P. O. Box 147100, Gainesville, FL 32614-7100.