07 January 2024.
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).
Coordinates: 30.4100, -86.9294
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Elevation: 11m.
Georeference protocol: Lat/lon determined by GPS
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Environment description: Successional flatwoods, forested wetlands, depressional wetland. Slope: less than 2%. Aspect: South Elevation: 36 feet.
Number of plants sampled: 1
Associated species: Magnolia virginiana; Pinus palustris; Lyonia lucida; Clethra alnifolia; Aronia arbutifolia; Hamamelis virginiana; Cyrilla racemiflora; Cliftonia monphylla; Gaylussacia mosieri; Ilex glabra; Smilax auriculata; Aristida stricta; Serenoa repens.
Comment: Swamp-bay is a shrub to medium-sized evergreen tree, usually multistemmed and 8-15 feet tall, occasionally up to 30-40 feet. Bark ranges from red to grayish-brown and has irregular furrows with flat-topped ridges. Twigs green, aging to grayish-brown, with rusty pubescence; aromatic. Leaves aromatic, alternate, lanceolate to elliptic, 2-6 inches long, 1-2 inches wide; upper surface dark green, shiny; undersides silvery-white with rusty orange pubescence primarily along midvein; margins entire. Flowers light yellow-greenish in small axillary clusters, non-showy; peduncles considerably longer than subtending leaf petioles; borne late spring to early summer. Fruit round to slightly oval, 1/2”, dark blue drupe with hairy reddish peduncles, ripening in fall, but persisting into winter.
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