Justicia cooleyi Monachino & Leonard. Common name: Cooley’s Water-willow, Cooley’s Justicia. Phenology: Aug-Jan (-Jul). Habitat: Calcareous hammocks. Distribution: Endemic to nc. peninsular FL (Lake, Sumter, and Hernando counties).
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Taxonomy Comments: Daniel (2013) argued that J. cooleyi merely represents disjunct populations of the neotropical J. pringlei. Wunderlin, Hansen, & Franck (2019) additionally treated the populations in FL as introduced.
Synonymy ⓘ: = GW2, NS, POWO, WH3, Long (1970); = n/a — S; < Justicia pringlei B.L.Rob. — Fl6, K4, Daniel (2013). Basionym: Justicia cooleyi Monach. & Leonard 1959
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Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW
Heliophily ⓘ: 6
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