18 November 2023.
Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States
Locality: Navarre, Florida: Adams St. cul-de-sac, on nine-acre private property. Infrastructure development began and was terminated due to the lack of any engineering or environmental site planning (designated wetland status). It has remained idle for a number of years.
Coordinates: 30.4097, -86.9298
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Elevation: 11m.
Georeference protocol: Lat/lon determined by GPS
Environment description: Wet pine flatwood transitioning to a shrub bog habitat under fire suppression. Slope: 3.5%. Aspect: West. Elevation: 36 feet.
Associated species: Cyrilla racemiflora; Cliftonia monophylla; Ilex glabra; Clethra alnifolia; Lyonia lucida; Serenoa repens; Pinus elliottii; Magnolia virginiana; Magnolia grandiflora; Morella cerifera; Quercus laurifolia; Seymeria sp.; Conradina canescens; Smilax glauca (listed as S. glaucescens); Smilax laurifolia; Kalmia hirsuta.
Comment: Inkberry is a dioecious, multistemmed, woody, upright to rounded, broadleaved evergreen shrub, 2-8’ tall; forming thickets or colonies. Grows beside swamps, bogs, seepage slopes, or pine flatwoods. Leaves glossy, dark green, 1-1.5”, ovate to elliptic, alternate, simple, flat; margins entire, with several teeth near the slightly acute apex. Flowers greenish to yellowish white, fairly inconspicuous; male plants have flowers in cymes while the female plants produce flowers in either cymes or singly, May to June. Fruit 3/8” (pea-sized), jet black berries, October-November, often lasting into December.
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