Everglades Palm

Acoelorraphe wrightii

Found in wet coastal hammocks, strand swamps, wet savannas, bay heads. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Florida edition What its natural habitat tells you

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Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom

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Recorded in 8 Florida counties.

Natural habitats

Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

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Regional / representative. Shown: Southern coastal swamps, Florida to Virginia; state not identified, a neighboring state.Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp, Marian Ellis Rowan, 1901. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal Plain hammocks

Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests.

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

All habitats

Also found with this plant

Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in Florida. Shared habitat, not food. 122 animals.

Song Sparrow
Melospiza melodia
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Spotted Sandpiper
Actitis macularius
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Swallow-tailed Kite
Elanoides forficatus
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Tricolored Heron
Egretta tricolor
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes aura
Birds. 2 shared habitats
White Ibis
Eudocimus albus
Birds. 2 shared habitats
White-crowned Pigeon
Patagioenas leucocephala
Birds. 2 shared habitats
White-eyed Vireo
Vireo griseus
Birds. 2 shared habitats
White-throated Sparrow
Zonotrichia albicollis
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Wood Stork
Mycteria americana
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Sphyrapicus varius
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Yellow-crowned Night-heron
Nyctanassa violacea
Birds. 2 shared habitats
American Avocet
Recurvirostra americana
Birds. 1 shared habitat
American Flamingo
Phoenicopterus ruber
Birds. 1 shared habitat
American Goldfinch
Carduelis tristis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
American Robin
Turdus migratorius
Birds. 1 shared habitat
American White Pelican
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Black-whiskered Vireo
Vireo altiloquus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Blue Jay
Cyanocitta cristata
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Polioptila caerulea
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Broad-winged Hawk
Buteo platypterus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Brown Pelican
Pelecanus occidentalis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Carolina Wren
Thryothorus ludovicianus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Cedar Waxwing
Bombycilla cedrorum
Birds. 1 shared habitat

All wildlife of Florida

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

0CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including FL

0BeesSoutheastern regional records

0Specialist beesPollen specialists

—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim

No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family: Arecaceae

Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.

Conservation status

Florida rank	S3
Global rank	Not available
FL status	Not verified
Federal status	Not verified

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Everglades Palm

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