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==Description== | ==Description== | ||
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| + | ''C. floridana'' is an erect perennial herb arising from a fleshy tap root and can reach three feet in height (Gunn et al. 1980). All parts of the plant are covered with sticky hairs and leaves are alternately arranged <ref name="Native">[[http://hawthornhillwildflowers.blogspot.com/2014/10/alicia-chapmannia-floridana.htm Native Florida Wildflowers]]Accessed: December 4, 2015</ref>. It is a nitrogen fixer (Mayfield 1998). | ||
==Distribution== | ==Distribution== | ||
Revision as of 15:40, 4 December 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
Contents
Taxonomic notes
Description
C. floridana is an erect perennial herb arising from a fleshy tap root and can reach three feet in height (Gunn et al. 1980). All parts of the plant are covered with sticky hairs and leaves are alternately arranged [1]. It is a nitrogen fixer (Mayfield 1998).
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.
- ↑ [Native Florida Wildflowers]Accessed: December 4, 2015
