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Dicerandra
Also called Panhandle Mints, Scrub Balms
Dicerandra is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family. Dicerandra comprises 11 species: six perennial and five annual species. The perennials have narrow ranges in Central Florida with small population sizes and only occur on ancient dune ridges along the Lake Wales Ridge or the Atlantic Coastal Ridge; the annual species occur more broadly on sandhill habitats to the north. The perennials’ habitat has been severely fragmented due to human development over the past century. As a result, all perennial species except one are listed as federally endangered. Annual species of the clade have large ranges when compared to perennial members, with distributions of annuals ranging for hundreds of miles from the Panhandle of Florida to southeastern Georgia, with the exception of Dicerandra radfordiana which is endemic to two sites along the Altamaha river.
Dicerandra species are found along ancient sand-hill habitats in the southeastern US. Northern, annual taxa occur mostly on acidic white sand that are remnants of ancient shorelines during the Pleistocene. Southern perennials either occur on red sands along the Lake Wales Ridge or on white sands along the Atlantic coast. They prefer open habitats free from tree cover and rapidly draining soils. Some, like Dicerandra cornutissima, have been reported along Interstate 75 where frequent machine clearing have provided a suitable habitat.
Lake Wales balm · Longspur balm · Florida balm · Scrub balm · Smoky Balm · Spotless balm · Coastal plain balm · Dicerandra modesta · Rose balm · Radford's balm · Dicerandra thinicola
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