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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE

SPECIES: Myrica cerifera | Southern Bayberry
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Southern bayberry is most common in peninsular Florida and on the Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States. It occurs from the Florida Keys north to southern New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware; west to eastern Texas, southeast Oklahoma, and central Arkansas. Atypical reported occurrences include Maine, Massachusetts, and New York. Outside the United States, southern bayberry grows in Bermuda, Cuba, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, and the British West Indies. It grows in Mexico, Central America, and South America from Costa Rica to Belize [16,20,26]. ECOSYSTEMS : FRES12 Longleaf - slash pine FRES13 Loblolly - shortleaf pine FRES14 Oak - pine FRES15 Oak - hickory FRES16 Oak - gum - cypress FRES32 Texas savanna FRES41 Wet grasslands STATES : AR FL GA HI LA ME MD MA MS NY NC OK TX VA MEXICO ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : ACAD ASIS BICY BITH CAHA CALO COLO COSW CUIS EVER FOCA GATE GUIS HOSP JELA BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : NO-ENTRY KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : K062 Mesquite - live oak savanna K079 Palmetto prairie K080 Marl - everglades K089 Black belt K090 Live oak - sea oats K091 Cypress savanna K092 Everglades K105 Mangrove K111 Oak - hickory - pine forest K112 Southern mixed forest K113 Southern floodplain forest K114 Pocosin K116 Subtropical pine forest SAF COVER TYPES : 70 Longleaf pine 71 Longleaf pine - scrub oak 72 Southern scrub oak 73 Southern redcedar 74 Cabbage palmetto 80 Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine 81 Loblolly pine 82 Loblolly pine - hardwood 83 Longleaf pine - slash pine 84 Slash pine 100 Pondcypress 102 Baldcypress - tupelo 103 Water tupelo - swamp tupelo 104 Sweetbay - swamp tupelo - red bay 105 Tropical hardwoods 106 Mangrove 111 South Florida slash pine SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : NO-ENTRY HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : Southern bayberry is common in a variety of habitats and plant communities in the southeastern United States. It grows equally well with the subtropical vegetation of south Florida and the temperate vegetation of the Inland Coastal Plain. Southern bayberry is the most common shrub in the longleaf (Pinus palustris)-slash pine (P. elliotii) type [3,20,23,36]. Other common overstory associates include loblolly pine (P. taeda), southern redcedar (Juniperus silicicola) [11], cabbage palmetto (Sabel palmetto) [48], pond pine (Pinus serotina) [4], live oak (Quercus virginiana) [19], spruce pine (Pinus glabra) [22], and baldcypress (Taxodium distichum) [11,33]. Common understory associates include dahoon holly (Ilex cassine), sawgrass (Cladium jamacensis) [30], muhly grass (Muhlenbergia spp.), beard grass (Andropogon spp.), saltbush (Baccharis halmifolia), myrsine (Myrsine floridana), and sweet bay (Magnolia virginiana) [49].

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