Cardiospermum native in Florida?

[Patrick Foley]

Wunderlin 1998 Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida calls C. halicacabum
nonnative and rare in Seminole, Polk, Dade and Monroe counties.

Radford et al. 's Carolina Flora calls it an occasional escape from cultivation.

Patrick
patfoley at csus.edu

John Shuey wrote:

> There is still some question whether it is truly exotic in Florida.
> > Surprisingly, the USDA website (http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/topics.cgi)
> > lists it as native.  Perhaps most interesting is that The Florida Exotic
> > Pest Plant Council (http://www.fleppc.org/), consisting of eleven of the
> > most authoritative botanists in Florida, does not list it as invasive in
> > Florida (1999-2001).  Likewise, The University of Florida Center
> > for Aquatic
> > and Invasive Plants (http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/welcome.html)
> > does not list
> > it either.
> >
> > John Calhoun
>
> I had to scan long and hard to find it listed as an exotic in Florida - but
> found it in an appendix of a online management plan for John Pennycamp State
> Park.  I am confounded by the fact that some list it as exotic, while
> resources devoted to exotics don't mention it.  However, I interpreted the
> lack of mention on the Florida Aquatic and Invasive Plant web page as
> evidence that it isn't an "invasive exotic" - although it could still be a
> "non-invasive exotic".  Most of my paper references (with the northern bias
> of our office library) list it as exotic (egg Britten and Brown).
>
> Kinda like watercress in the Midwest - its been here so long that no-one is
> quite sure if it is or if it isn't.
>
> John
>
> John A. Shuey
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> Indiana Office of The Nature Conservancy
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