| 0 | NA 89165 | 2025RJLSEUS-28 | Cartrema floridana (Chapm.) G. L. Nesom | Florida, United States | NA | | Not Available | 2025 | COLLECTED | 10/10/2025 | Wahneta, Florida: East side of Pollard Road, Wahneta, FL, approximately 0.33 kilometers south of a railroad crossing. The woodland is bounded on the east by the railway right-of-way. | 27.96127800, -81.70997800 | 43 | Growing on sugar sand in part shade to part sun of a remnant dry, xeric Lake Wales Ridge habitat. This site is in the middle of a highly developed suburban housing/light industrial area. The forest in this location is a fascinating example of what happens when fire is suppressed. Even under these conditions, with reduced overall diversity, the mature canopy of evergreens is under 7 meters. However, the shade created by the layers of vegetation are suppressing or eliminating open, low competition areas for species that require these conditions. Slope: 0 percent. Aspect: N/A. Soil: The soil of this site is characterized as St. Lucie Series fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes; with other minor contributions from Archbold, Myakka, and Cassia not described here. The St. Lucie Series consists of very deep, excessively drained soils that formed in sandy marine and/or eolian deposits. St. Lucie soils are on dunes, ridges, and knolls on marine terraces. Slopes range from linear to convex and range from 0 to 20 percent. This soil is strongly to extremely acid in the upper 200 cm of the horizon but can have neutral to alkaline components as well. The genesis of the St. Lucie soils is not clearly understood. No subsurface diagnostic horizons are within depths of 2 meters, but the uncoated sand grains suggest an albic horizon. (Source: California Soil Resource Lab/NRCS Official Soil Series Descriptions). Geology: This collecting site straddles two geological formations: Cypresshead Formation (1) and Reworked Cypresshead Sediments (2) which follow. (1) The Cypresshead Formation named by Huddlestun (1988), is composed of siliciclastics is of Pliocene origin and occurs only in the Florida peninsula and eastern Georgia. It is at or near the surface from northern Nassau County southward to Highlands County forming the peninsular highlands. It appears that the Cypresshead Formation occurs in the subsurface southward from the outcrop region and similar sediments, the Long Key Formation, underlay the Florida Keys. The Cypresshead Formation is a shallow marine, near shore deposit equivalent to the Citronelle Formation deltaic sediments and the Miccosukee Formation prodeltaic sediments. The Cypresshead Formation consists of reddish brown to reddish orange, unconsolidated to poorly consolidated, fine to very coarse grained, clean to clayey sands. Cross bedded sands are common within the formation. Discoid quartzite pebbles and mica are often present. Clay beds are scattered and not extensive. In general, the Cypresshead Formation in exposure occurs above 100 feet (30 meters) above mean sea level (msl). Original fossil material is not present in the sediments although poorly preserved molds and casts of mollusks and burrow structures are occasionally present. The presence of these fossil "ghosts" and trace fossils documents marine influence on deposition of the Cypresshead sediments. The permeable sands of the Cypresshead Formation form part of the surficial aquifer system. Source: USGS Florida Geologic Map Data (https://mrdata.usgs.gov/geology/state/sgmc-unit.php?unit=FLPOc%3B0) (2) The Reworked Cypresshead Sediments is of Pliocene/Pleistocene origin. This unit is the result of post depositional reworking of the Cypresshead siliciclastics. The sediments are fine to coarse quartz sands with scattered quartz gravel and varying percentages of clay matrix that is undifferentiated. (Source: USGS Florida Geologic Map Data). | Wild material | | 2193015 | NA 89165 |
| 1 | NA 89056 | AFGN25-06 | Cartrema americana (L.) G. L. Nesom | Florida, United States | NA | | Not Available | 2025 | COLLECTED | 05/31/2025 | Eglin Air Force Base: Weaver Creek bayhead. | 30.50805000, -86.91389000 | 22 | Steep slope of Weaver Creek bayhead. | Wild material | | 2191423 | NA 89056 |
| 2 | NA 88594 | 2024TKiphart-001 | Cartrema americana (L.) G. L. Nesom | Florida, United States | NA | | Not Available | 2024 | COLLECTED | 11/24/2024 | Eglin Air Force Base: East River Unit H-3, Range Road 259, north of Highway 98. | 30.41300000, -86.77480000 | 7 | Margins of a wetland stringer with several heavily fruited plants, surrounded by xeric scrub/relict fossil dunes. They are growing in part shade to full sun in a mixed evergreen and deciduous shrubby habitat with evergreen and deciduous trees growing further upslope in the dune habitat that surrounds the wetland. Slope: 4 percent. Aspect: West. The underlying geology of this area is characterized as undifferentiated Quaternary Sediments. Much of Florida's surface is covered by a varying thickness of undifferentiated sediments consisting of siliciclastics, organics and freshwater carbonates. Where these sediments exceed 6.1 meters thick, they were mapped as discrete units. To subdivide the undifferentiated sediments, those sediments occurring in flood plains were mapped as alluvial and flood plain deposits (Qal). Sediments showing surficial expression of beach ridges and dunes were mapped separately (Qbd) as were the sediments composing Trail Ridge (Qtr). Terrace sands were not mapped (refer to Healy [1975] for a discussion of the terraces in Florida). The subdivisions of the Undifferentiated Quaternary Sediments (Qu) are not lithostratigraphic units but are utilized to facilitate a better understanding of the State's geology. The siliciclastics are light gray, tan, brown to black, unconsolidated to poorly consolidated, clean to clayey, silty, unfossiliferous, variably organic-bearing sands to blue green to olive green, poorly to moderately consolidated, sandy, silty clays. Gravel is occasionally present in the panhandle. Organics occur as plant debris, roots, disseminated organic matrix and beds of peat. Freshwater carbonates, often referred to as marls in the literature, are scattered over much of the State. In southern Florida, freshwater carbonates are nearly ubiquitous in the Everglades. These sediments are buff colored to tan, unconsolidated to poorly consolidated, fossiliferous carbonate muds. Sand, silt and clay may be present in limited quantities. These carbonates often contain organics. The dominant fossils in the freshwater carbonates are mollusks. (Source: USGS Florida Geologic Map Data). The soils of this are characterized as Rutlege Series fine sand, depressional. The Rutlege series comprises very deep, very poorly drained persistently wet soils on flats, depressions, and floodplains where shallow ponding is common. They are of marine or fluvial sediment origin. Thickness of these loamy sandy soils is greater than 1.5 meters and a reaction from extremely acid to strongly acid. (Source: NRCS Web Soil Survey). | Wild material | | 2170527 | NA 88594 |
| 3 | NA 87826 | FL24-04 | Cartrema floridana (Chapm.) G. L. Nesom | Florida, United States | NA | | Not Available | 2024 | COLLECTED | 09/07/2024 | Rye Preserve, along the Manatee River. | 27.50838518, -82.35958526 | | Open scrub, xeric, sandy. EPA Ecoregion III: Southern Coastal Plain (75). EPA Ecoregion IV: Southwestern Florida Flatwood (75b). Geology: Hawthorn Group, Peace River Formation. Soil: Cassia Series Fine Sand, moderately well drained. | Wild material | Received as Cartrema floridana; recorded as Cartrema floridana at the U.S. National Arboretum. | 2168976 | NA 87826 |
| 4 | NA 87349 | TJK2022FL-004 | Cartrema americana (L.) G. L. Nesom | Florida, United States | NA | | | 2023 | COLLECTED | 11/02/2022 | Okaloosa County: Eglin Air Force Base: East River Unit H-3, Range Road 259, north of Highway 98. | 30.41300000, -86.77480000 | 0 | A wet stringer surrounded by Xeric Scrub/Upland Sandhill community. | Wild material | | 2141640 | NA 87349 |
| 5 | NA 87598 | NA 87598 | Cartrema americana (L.) G. L. Nesom | | NA | | Not Available | 2021 | | | | | | | Cultivated material | Given to Joan Feely by Jim Adams of USBG; this is a form that they received from Carole Ottesen, and which former curator Bill McLaughlin felt was a superior flowering selection of the species, and possibly worthy of introduction. | 2166157 | NA 87598 |
| 6 | NA 56806 | NA 56806 | Cartrema americana (L.) G. L. Nesom | | NA | | Not Available | 1985 | | | | | | | | | 1952339 | NA 56806 |