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Flowers appear May and June and fruits in May (FSU Herbarium).
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Fruits in May and flowers May through June (FSU Herbarium).
  
 
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Revision as of 11:27, 2 November 2015

Chapmannia floridana
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae ⁄ Leguminosae
Genus: Chapmannia
Species: C. floridana
Binomial name
Chapmannia floridana
Torr. & A. Gray
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Natural range of Chapmannia floridana from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Common name: Florida alicia

Taxonomic notes

Description

Distribution

Ecology

Habitat

In the Coastal Plain in Florida, C. floridana has been found in turkey oak/longleaf pine sand ridges; pine-palmettos flatwoods; longleaf pine-wiregrass ridges; and scrub oak sand ridges. Human impacted areas include heavily cattle grazed longleaf pine-saw palmetto flatwoods (FSU Herbarium).

Phenology

Fruits in May and flowers May through June (FSU Herbarium).

Seed dispersal

Seed bank and germination

Fire ecology

Pollination

The following Hymenoptera families and species were observed visiting flowers of Chapmannia floridana at Archbold Biological Station (Deyrup 2015):

Apidae: Bombus impatiens

Halictidae: Augochlorella aurata, Augochloropsis metallica, Lasioglossum nymphalis, L. placidensis

Use by animals

Diseases and parasites

Conservation and Management

Cultivation and restoration

Photo Gallery

References and notes

Deyrup, M.A. and N.D. 2015. Database of observations of Hymenoptera visitations to flowers of plants on Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA.

Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: October 2015. Collectors: Loran C. Anderson, J. Beckner, D. Burch, J. Carmichael, A. Gholson Jr., R.K. Godfrey, Richard D. Houk, R. Kral, K.M. Meyer, Allen G. Shuey, A. Townesmith, D.B. Ward. States and Counties: Florida: Clay, DeSoto, Glades, Lake, Marion, Orange, Osceola, Polk, Seminole. Compiled by Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy.