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Ceratiola ericoides (sand heath)

Synonyms: Ceratiola falcatula; Ceratiola falcautla; Empetrum aciculare

Wikipedia Abstract

Ceratiola is a genus of flowering plants with a single species, Ceratiola ericoides, the sand heath, sandhill-rosemary or Florida-rosemary, is a species of shrub usually included in the plant family Ericaceae, though treated by some botanists in the Empetraceae. It is the sole species in the genus Ceratiola. Its habitat is important for the endangered Florida sand skink (Neoseps reynoldsi) in central Florida. The name derives from the species' superficial similarity to the unrelated European shrub rosemary, familiar for its leaves used as a herb. Florida-rosemary is not edible.
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Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [1]  Shrub

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Canaveral National Seashore II 9090 Florida, United States
Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve 40530 United States  
Gulf Island National Seashore II 67487 Florida, Mississippi, United States

Predators

Anisomorpha buprestoides (Florida Stick Insect)[3]
Nemoria outina[4]
Pseudoparlatoria ostreata (acalypha scale)[5]
Rhizaspidiotus dearnessi (dearness scale)[5]
Schistocerca ceratiola (rosemary grasshopper)[6]

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
3Twostriped Walkingstick, Anisomorpha buprestoides (Stoll) (Insecta: Phasmatodea: Pseudophasmatidae), Michael C. Thomas, University of Florida, November 2003. Revised February 2008
4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
6Schistocerca ceratiola Hubbell and Walker (Insecta: Orthoptera: Acrididae), John L. Capinera, University of Florida, July 2011
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0