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].

Related categories for Species: Myrica cerifera | Southern Bayberry