20 October 2023.
Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States
Locality: Santa Rosa Island: White Sands Blvd, Navarre Beach at Santa Rosa Sound, soundside.
Coordinates: 30.3788, -86.8977
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Elevation: 2m.
Georeference protocol: Lat/lon determined by GPS
Environment description: Woody transition belt between sound-side marsh vegetation and fore dune vegetation. Plants experience saltwater intrusion. Slope: 7%. Aspect: Northwest. Elevation: 5 feet.
Number of plants sampled: 6
Associated species: Baccharis halimifolia; Toxicodendron radicans (as Rhus toxidendron); Vitis sp.; Ilex vomitoria; Eupatorium capillifolium; Tradescantia sp. (likely T. ohioensis); Cnidoscolus stimulosus; Uniola paniculata; Pinus clausa.
Comment: Wax-myrtle usually occurs in bogs, pine flatwoods, seeps, and along streams. It is an evergreen, multitrunked to suckering shrub, 4 to 12 feet in height, sometimes taller. Bark and twigs greyish-white and smooth. Leaves aromatic, glossy, alternate, oblanceolate to obovate, olive green above and lower leaf surface with yellowish-rusty resin dots; margins serrulate. Flowers dioecious, golden-yellowish, produced in leaf axils in early spring. Fruit bluish-white, waxy-coated drupes in sessile clusters on previous seasons growth, early fall. These plants experience saltwater intrusion, and may have an adaptive advantage in certain landscape or restoration environments. Common. Seed collected from 6 plants.
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