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Zamia integrifolia
Also called Bay-rush, Comfort root, Coontie, Florida Coontie, Wild Sago
Zamia integrifolia, also known as coontie, is a small, tough, woody cycad native to the southeastern United States (in Florida and formerly in Georgia), the Bahamas, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, and Puerto Rico. It is the only cycad native to the continental United States (the parts of the USA that exclude Hawaii and Alaska). Traditionally, it was used by Indigenous Americans to make starch.
Z. integrifolia inhabits a variety of habitats with well-drained sands or sandy loam soils. It prefers filtered sunlight to partial shade. In the United States populations are presently limited to Florida. A Zamia species has been twice reported from extreme southeastern Georgia, in 1928 (a single plant of uncertain provenance) and 1971 (a single population of three plants on St. Simons Island in Glynn County), when it was identified as Z. umbrosa, since synonymized to Z. integrifolia. There have been no reports of Z. integrifolia in Georgia since 1971 and a search of Glynn County in 2016 did not find any specimens of the species. Z. integrifolia is presumed to be extinct in Georgia.
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Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
