Lyonia ferruginea (Walter) Nutt.

• Region

  North America

• Country

  United States of America

• State/Province

  Florida

• County/Municipio

  Gulf Co.

• Locality

  St. Joseph Bay State Buffer Preserve

• Elevation

  Alt. 2 m. (7 ft.)

• Coordinates

  29.7007, -85.2943

• Location Notes

  [US & Canada]

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

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Harvard University, Gray Herbarium (GH)
PLANTS OF FLORIDA
Lyonia ferruginea (Walt.) Nutt.
ERICACEAE
Shrubs to 3ft tall, locally common, flowers white.
Growing in sunny, dry, scrubby sandhill vegetation,
burned 2-3 years earlier, in sand (Resota fine sand, 0-
5% slopes; thermic, coated Spodic Quartzipsamments).
Growing with Andropogon gyrans, Aristida stricta,
Carphephorus paniculatus, Cladonia leporina,
Conradina canescens, Dichanthelium sp., Euphorbia
inundata, Hypericum microsepalum, Ilex glabra, Liatris
sp., Lyonia lucida, Opuntia humifusa, Pinus elliottii, P.
palustris, Polygonella sp., Quercus chapmanii, Q.
geminata, Q. incana, Q. laevis, Q. minima, Q.
myrtifolia, Rhynchospora megalocarpa (?),
Rhynchospora sp., Serenoa repens, Smilax auriculata,
Stillingia sylvatica, Stylisma patens & Vaccinium
arboreum (rare). St. Joseph Bay State Buffer Preserve,
Gulf Co. Elev. about 5ft. 29° 42' 02.5"N, 85° 17'
39.6"W. UTM 16 665014E, 3286840N
(NAD83/WGS84).
Coll. Doug Goldman #3920
29 March 2007
BOTANICAL
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