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Dicerandra Thinicola
''Dicerandra thinicola'', known as Titusville mint, is a species of '' Dicerandra'' (mint family) native to the Atlantic Coastal Ridge along the Central Florida coast. It is restricted to a 50-km range, and all known natural populations of ''D. thinicola'' are located in Brevard County, Florida Brevard County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Florida. It is on the Atlantic coast of eastern Central Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 606,612, making it the 10th-most populated county in Florida. The official county s ..., near the city of Titusville. Most populations are located on private lands with conservation easements. The Dicerandra Scrub Sanctuary was created in 2002 on public lands in order to protect populations of this species from human development. Recent research indicates that disturbance, particularly fire disturbance, is key for population growth in ''D. thinicola''. It is a short-lived perennial (typically living less than 10 years). Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dicerandra
''Dicerandra'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family. ''Dicerandra'' comprises 11 species: six perennial and five annual species. The perennials have narrow ranges in Central Florida with small population sizes and only occur on ancient dune ridges along the Lake Wales Ridge or the Atlantic Coastal Ridge; the annual species occur more broadly on sandhill habitats to the north. The perennials’ habitat has been severely fragmented due to human development over the past century. As a result, all perennial species except one are listed as federally endangered. Annual species of the clade have large ranges when compared to perennial members, with distributions of annuals ranging for hundreds of miles from the Panhandle of Florida to southeastern Georgia, with the exception of ''Dicerandra radfordiana'' which is endemic to two sites along the Altamaha river. The genus is characterized by hornlike spurs on their anthers.Huck, R. B. (2008)''Dicerandra modesta'' (Lamiaceae): ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic Coastal Ridge
The Atlantic Coastal Ridge is a geomorphological feature paralleling the Atlantic coast of Florida from the border with Georgia to Miami-Dade County, where it transitions into the Miami Rock Ridge. For most of its length it consists of one or more relict beach ridges created when the sea level was about higher than at present. The southernmost part of the Atlantic Coastal Ridge (the Miami Rock Ridge) was created as a carbonate platform during the same period. Before human modification for agriculture and urban development, much of the ridge hosted scrub vegetation. Extent The Atlantic Coastal Ridge extends from the St. Marys River, which is the boundary between Florida and Georgia, to west of Homestead in southern Miami-Dade County. The Atlantic Coastal Ridge is a relict beach ridge created during what is called the "Pamlico time". Except in the southernmost part of the Atlantic Coastal Ridge (in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, the ridge was likely the mainland shore of Florida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brevard County, Florida
Brevard County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Florida. It is on the Atlantic coast of eastern Central Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 606,612, making it the 10th-most populated county in Florida. The official county seat is located in Titusville. A secondary center of county administration, including a circuit courthouse, was built in 1989 in the planned community of Viera, Florida, the geographic center of the county. History The first Paleoindians arrived in the area near Brevard county between 12,000 and 10,000 years ago. Before the arrival of non- indigenous settlers in the 16th century, the area was inhabited by Native Americans. The county is the site of the Windover Archeological Site, which contained evidence of habitation over 7,000 years ago. Brevard County was established in 1855 and is named after Theodore Washington Brevard, an early Florida settler and state comptroller. The county's boundaries were changed and reduced numerous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titusville, Florida
Titusville is a city in and the county seat of Brevard County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 48,789, up from 43,761 at the 2010 census. Titusville is located along the Indian River (Florida), Indian River, west of Merritt Island, Florida, Merritt Island and the Kennedy Space Center, and south-southwest of the Canaveral National Seashore. It is a principal city of the Palm Bay, Florida, Palm Bay–Melbourne, Florida, Melbourne–Titusville, Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. A secondary, ''de facto'' county seat was established beginning in 1989, at Viera, Florida, in the geographic center of the county, to better serve the more populous southern portion of the county. History Indigenous peoples had inhabited this area for thousands of years, as shown by discovery in 1982 of the Windover Archeological Site, dating to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
