Native to Alabama, Cuba, Easter Is., Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Juan Fernández Is., Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Nansei-shoto, Ogasawara-shoto, Pitcairn Is., Texas, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is.; extinct in South Carolina (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

Davidson, C 11922

November 3, 2011

Location

United States, Texas, Matagorda

28.765278, -95.626111

Location Remarks

End of Highway 457 at the coast. Along the edge of the estuary. 2 m elev.

Collectors

Christopher Davidson, C. Efraimson

Notes

Coastal dunes, on the sea-side of a small estuary.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Solanales

Family

Solanaceae

Genus

Lycium

Specific Epithet

carolinianum

Authorship

Walter

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIF WFO POWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 0.7

Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

0.1

Global rank

#295,742 of 335,497

Top 89%

Extinction probability

10%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →