Aronia arbutifolia

Aronia arbutifolia
Photo taken by Gil Nelson
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class:	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Rosaceae
Genus:	Aronia
Species:	A. arbutifolia
Binomial name
Aronia arbutifolia (L.) Pers.
Natural range of Aronia arbutifolia from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Common name: red chokeberry

Ecology

Habitat

Habitats of A. arbutifolia include boggy pine flatwoods, titi bogs, evergreen shrub bog, shrub bog, bays, margins of bays, cypress swamp pond, swampy woodlands, borders of titi swamp, wet prairie, low palmetto flatwoods, cabbage palm hammock, dry sandy soil of high pineland, mixed hardwoods, longleaf pine rolling terrain, and swampy areas along rivers and creeks (FSU Herbarium).

Associated species include Ilex myrtifolia, Ilex coriacea, Cliftonia monophylla, Cyrilla racemiflora, Persea palustris, Myrica cerifera, Lyonia lucida, Smilax laurifolia, Aster spinulosus, Cuphea aspera, Sabal palmetto, Quercus virginiana, Magnolia virginiana, Solidago fistulosa, Pinus palustris and Thelypteris palustris (FSU Herbarium).

Soils observed are loamy sand, wet soil and dry sandy soil (FSU Herbarium).

Phenology

Observed blooming period February through April and fruiting March through December (FSU Herbarium).

Fire ecology

A. arbutifolia has been documented in wet pinewoods of a one year unburned old growth longleaf pine stand (FSU Herbarium).

References and notes

Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: Collectors: States and Counties: Compiled by Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy.