CPC National Collection Plant Profile
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CPC National Collection Plant Profile
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Conradina etonia
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Conradina etonia is Fully Sponsored |
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custodian for this plant in the CPC National Collection of Endangered
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S.K. Maddox and Tammera Race contributed to this Plant Profile. |
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| Conradina species are aromatic shrubs with small narrow leaves, similar to the herb rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis). Etonia rosemary (Conradina etonia) is a short-lived woody perennial, with mature plants living several years before declining. This species flowers in the summer, producing pink-lavender lobed flowers with dotted lower petals. These beautiful flowers attract many insect visitors, including bees and butterflies. Etonia rosemary is the most narrowly distributed species of Conradina. It occurs only in one county in Florida (Putnam) in sand pine scrub in the Etonia Creek region. This plant differs from other woody mints in the area by its strongly bent flower tube and hairy lower leaf surface (FNAI 2000). The region where it is found is of interest because many species more typical of southern scrub (Perea humilis, Ilex cumulicola, Garberia fruticosa for example) are found at their northern limits here. When this species was listed as federally endangered in 1993, it was only found at two sites in the wild, both in Putnam County, Florida. At this time, both sites were on privately owned land that had either been subdivided for residential development, or approved for development.
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References |
Coile, N.C. 2000. Notes on Florida's Regulated Plant Index (Rule 5B-40), Botany Contribution 38. Gainesville, Florida: Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry. |
FNAI. 2000. Field Guide to the Rare Plants and Animals of Florida online. Florida Natural Areas Inventory. |
Wunderlin, R.P. 1998. Guide to the vascular plants of Florida. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. 806p. |
Kartesz, J.T. 1999. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the U.S., Canada, and Greenland. In: Kartesz, J.T.; Meacham, C.A., editors. Synthesis of the North American Flora, Version 1.0. North Carolina Botanical Garden. Chapel Hill, NC. |
(2002). Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants. [Web site] University of South Florida Institute for Systematic Botany. http://www.plantatlas.usf.edu/isb/default.htm. Accessed: 2008. |
Denton, S. (2001). Photo Library of Native and Naturalized Plants of Florida. Biological Research Associates. http://www.biolresearch.com/Plants/index.php?id=C. Accessed: 2002. |
NatureServe. (2008). NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. [Internet].Version 7.0. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. http://www.natureserve.org/explorer. Accessed: (June 17, 2008). |
Weigel, R.C. (2002). Research interests Web site. Florida Institute of Technology. http://hyper.fit.edu/biology/Faculty/Weigel.htm. Accessed: 2002. |
Peterson, C.L.; Weigel, R.C. 2002. In vitro Propagation of Conradina etonia. Florida Scientist. 65, 3: 201–207. |
Race, T.. Etonia Rosemary (Conradina etonia). The Bok Tower Gardens Newsletter. |
USFWS. 1992. Proposed endangered status for three Florida plants of the genus Conradina. Federal Register. 57, 98: 21369-21374. |
USFWS. 1993. Endangered or threatened status for five Florida plants. Federal Register. 58, 131: 37432-37444. |
Crook, R.W. 1996. Conradina: Interspecific and Intergeneric Relationships. Tallahassee, Florida: Florida Division of Forestry: Statewide Endangered and Threatened Plant Conservation Program. |
Johnson, A.F. 1998. A survey for the Etoniah rosemary (Conradina etonia) on Etoniah Creek State Forest, Putnam County, Florida: an FNAI ecological inventory. Tallahassee, FL: Florida Natural Areas Inventory. p.32303. |
Kral, R. 1983. A report on some rare, threatened or endangered forest related vascular plants of the south. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Forest Service. p.718. USFS technical publication R8-TP2, . Vol. 1. |
USFWS. 1994. Recovery Plan for Etonia rosemary (Conradina etonia). Atlanta, GA: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. p.11. |
| This profile was updated on 3/4/2010 |