Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fagales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Casuarina equisetifolia ssp. equisetifolia
FAMILY
Casuarinaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read about Casuarina at wiki.bugwood.org
Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Casuarina equisetifolia
FAMILY
Casuarinaceae
COMMON NAME:
Australian-pine, Horsetail Casuarina, Beach She-oak, Coastal She-oak
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W.D. Brush / USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database pnd_caeq_010_lvp
Male flowers are borne in slender cylindrical spikes at the twig tips, per www.wiki.bugwood.org.
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W.D. Brush / USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database pnd_caeq_011_lvp
Female flowers occur in lateral heads on non-shedding branchlets, per www.wiki.bugwood.org.
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Dan Clark, USDI National Park Service, Bugwood.org bug_5281019
Month Unknown
Its very slender green twigs resemble pine needles, but it is not a pine, per Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control.
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Dan Clark, USDI National Park Service, Bugwood.org bug_5281021
Month Unknown
Peak bloom in April, a lesser one in September. Some fruit present any time, per Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control.
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Forest and Kim Starr, Starr Environmental, Bugwood.org bug_5285005
Month Unknown HI
Reported for AL in 2012, "definitely naturalized and suckering", per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Forest and Kim Starr, Starr Environmental, Bugwood.org bug_5285045
Month Unknown FL
Can grow 10' in a year, and in 5 years is producing thousands of seeds, per Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control.
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Leslie J. Mehrhoff, University of Connecticut, Bugwood.org bug_5446281
Month Unknown
Shallow-rooted and inhibiting the growth of native dune-stabilizing plants, per Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control.
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Christina Southwick, Dried Botanical ID, USDA APHIS ITP, Bugwood.org bug_5463792
Month Unknown
Half-inch fruits look like rounded cones and contain 70-90 light flat seeds, per Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Casuarina equisetifolia ssp. equisetifolia
FAMILY
Casuarinaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Casuarina equisetifolia
FAMILY
Casuarinaceae
3833
Tree
Perennial
Monoecious
Non-native: Malaysia, southern Asia, Oceania
Documented growing wild in - - -
Habitat: beaches, dunes, suburban areas, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
NEW! Click here to see a range map (and maybe identification notes) from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:
- Alabama Invasive Plant Council, 2012
- Forest Health Assessment & Applied Sciences Team: New Invaders of the Southeast
LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple - needle-like
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Red?
Unisexual
FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Brown
A tiny, one-seeded, winged nutlet (samara), formed in woody cone-like clusters
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control p038
- New Invaders of the Southeast p049