Boca Raton, FL (Zone 10a) | February 2005 | positive
Beach Clustervine or Beach Jacquemontia (Jacquemontia reclinata) is native and endemic to the increasingly rare and destroyed coastal gra...Read Moressland, coastal dune, coastal beach and coastal scrub habitats along the southeastern coast of Florida (zones 9b to 11), where it is found in only a few several sites in four counties: Martin, Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties. It is a member of the Morning Glory family (Convolvulaceae). It is a creeping, vining, trailing Morning Glory with attractive, white, small to medium star-shaped flowers which are pollinated by insects - one of the few hopes for this plant's survival. The leaves are small, slightly oval-shaped, and pointed, usually. As coastal development in southeastern Florida continues, this plant's habitat continues to be destroyed and the plant itself is now extremely rare and threatened. It is listed as endangered by the U.S. and state of Florida. Habitat preservation is the Key to this plant's survival. It possibly used to occur in the Keys, but does so no longer, or survives there in small numbers. It is a great but rarely available plant for a native plant garden in a coastal situation meant to mimick it's coastal habitats: coastal scrub, coastal grassland, coastal beach and coastal dune, planted with native species found in the same habitat. Some native plant nurseries and nurserymen and some other people or trying to propagate it in south Florida, but it is rarely available. Such propagation may be the key to this plant's survival. It likes full sun. It and it's habitat should have increased awareness in southern Florida, and it and it's habitat should be protected!
MORE FACTS - Rarely propagated. Listed as endangered by the U.S. and state of Florida.
Beach Clustervine or Beach Jacquemontia (Jacquemontia reclinata) is native and endemic to the increasingly rare and destroyed coastal gra...Read More
FL - endangered