{"assessment":{"band":"Modest","factor_identity":{"basis":"approved shared identity","growth_habit_source":"USDA PLANTS","name_used":"Ceratophyllum australe"},"factor_scopes":{"bees":"Southeastern North America","birds":"North America","caterpillars":"Host genera of native Lepidoptera with established Florida range; association and range overlap, not confirmed local feeding.","specialists":"Eastern North America","structure":"USDA species growth habit where matched; otherwise sourced atlas growth habit"},"factors":{"applied_insect_credit":0,"baseline_score":13,"composite":0.333,"insect_support":{"credit":0,"groups":{"ants":{"credit":0,"flower_visits":[],"label":"Ants","recorded_name_count":null,"recorded_names":[],"seed_interactions":[],"status":"unknown"},"beetles":{"credit":0,"flower_visits":[],"label":"Beetles","recorded_name_count":null,"recorded_names":[],"seed_interactions":[],"status":"unknown"},"flies":{"credit":0,"flower_visits":[],"label":"Flies","recorded_name_count":null,"recorded_names":[],"seed_interactions":[],"status":"unknown"},"moths_butterflies":{"credit":0,"flower_visits":[],"label":"Adult butterflies / moths","recorded_name_count":null,"recorded_names":[],"seed_interactions":[],"status":"unknown"},"other_hymenoptera":{"credit":0,"flower_visits":[],"label":"Other wasps","recorded_name_count":null,"recorded_names":[],"seed_interactions":[],"status":"unknown"},"other_insects":{"credit":0,"flower_visits":[],"label":"Other insects","recorded_name_count":null,"recorded_names":[],"seed_interactions":[],"status":"unknown"}},"interpretation":"One provisional point per additional documented insect group, capped at five. Flower visits are a resource-use proxy, not confirmed feeding or pollination. Missing evidence is unknown. Study volume and repeated records earn no extra credit.","maximum_credit":5,"version":"insect-support-1"},"pct":{"bees":0.24379652605459057,"birds":0.9119106699751861,"caterpillars":0.17307692307692307,"specialists":0.4323821339950372,"structure":0.5},"rank_pct":0.089,"raw":{"bees":0,"birds":9,"caterpillars":0,"genus_used":null,"specialists":0,"structure":["Forb/herb"]}},"fit_score":null,"native_basis":"native_supported","rarity_adjustment":0,"rarity_policy":"Conservation status is displayed separately and never changes ecological scores, including when unranked.","reason":"Calculated with the shared rules using Florida host-range and shared ecological evidence.","reference":"NC native reference cohort, method 0.6.4; not a Florida percentile","score":13,"scoring_inputs":{"harm_penalty":0,"invasive":false,"invasive_rank":null,"native":true,"state_rank":"SNR"},"source_ids":["lep_fl","globi","bigbee","avian","usdahabit","robertson","antseed"],"status":"scored_provisional","version":"shared-0.6.5"},"condition_evidence":{"light":{"evidence_id":"fact:fc7115b19a51371c64fc5310f0ff179d1908aea6f2a445c5da706f3c1d83d6f1","levels":[0,1,2,3],"policy":"selected-condition-categories-2","range":[0,3],"scope":{"kind":"region","region_id":"floraquest_nc_sc_ga"},"semantics":"documented_native_habitat_conditions","source_field":"habitat_light_categories","source_label":"Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition","source_url":"https://fsus.ncbg.unc.edu/","status":"mapped_selected_fact"},"moisture":{"evidence_id":"fact:7e387b2fca4412d97e1fb1252d33a3522e2811ad737019b23bd2a7a51924473b","levels":[0],"policy":"selected-condition-categories-2","range":[0,0],"scope":{"kind":"region","region_id":"floraquest_nc_sc_ga"},"semantics":"documented_native_habitat_conditions","source_field":"habitat_moisture_categories","source_label":"Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition","source_url":"https://fsus.ncbg.unc.edu/","status":"mapped_selected_fact"}},"evidence":{"fit_score":null,"growth_habit":["Forb/herb"],"invasive_status":{"status":"unresolved"},"native_status":{"status":"native_supported"},"occurrence":{"county_fips":["12009","12037","12075","12087","12089"],"meaning":"Recorded occurrence; not a county native-range assertion"},"quercus_score":null,"regional":{"county_fips":["12009","12037","12075","12087","12089"],"growth_habit":null,"growth_habit_source":null,"invasive":null,"invasive_evidence":[],"invasive_rank":null,"native":true,"native_basis":"state_source","native_decided_by":"fl_atlas","native_evidence":[{"claim":"native","flag":"Y","matched_name":"Ceratophyllum australe","scope":"FL","source":"fl_atlas","url":"https://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/plant/species/1303"},{"claim":"native","matched_name":"Ceratophyllum australe","scope":"L48","source":"usda","text":"L48:N","url":"https://plants.usda.gov/"},{"claim":"native","matched_name":"Ceratophyllum australe","scope":"NC","source":"nc_flora","url":"https://auth1.dpr.ncparks.gov/flora/"},{"basis":"species account without the alien asterisk","claim":"native_distribution","matched_name":"Ceratophyllum australe","scope":"AL-AR-DC-DE-FL-GA-KY-LA-MD-MS-NC-NJ-PA-SC-TN-VA-WV","source":"weakley_fsus","url":"https://fsus.ncbg.unc.edu/"},{"basis":"Native field of the Florida edition; the state is in its distribution","claim":"native","record_id":2422,"scope":"FL","source":"floraquest_florida","url":"https://fsus.ncbg.unc.edu/"}],"native_explanation":"Atlas of Florida Plants (published flora, state claim) gives the value, over a broader claim from a higher tier. Speaks for its own area (NC), not this state: Vascular Plants of North Carolina (NC Natural Heritage Program).","native_provenance":{"flags":["over_higher_tier"],"source":"fl_atlas","specificity":"state","tier":"published_flora"},"native_status":"native_supported","package_native_status":"native_supported","source_ids":["fl_atlas:FL:1303"],"source_name":"Ceratophyllum australe","source_refs":["fl_atlas","gbif_specimens","natureserve_explorer"],"source_url":"https://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/plant/species/1303","state_rank":"SNR"},"source_refs":["fl_atlas","gbif_specimens","natureserve_explorer"],"source_url":"https://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/plant/species/1303","state_rank":{"value":"SNR"}},"fit_inputs":{"light":[0,3],"moisture":[0,0],"ph":null},"fit_provenance":{"light":"Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition","moisture":"Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition"},"fit_record":{"band":"Modest","condition_evidence":{"light":{"evidence_id":"fact:fc7115b19a51371c64fc5310f0ff179d1908aea6f2a445c5da706f3c1d83d6f1","levels":[0,1,2,3],"policy":"selected-condition-categories-2","range":[0,3],"scope":{"kind":"region","region_id":"floraquest_nc_sc_ga"},"semantics":"documented_native_habitat_conditions","source_field":"habitat_light_categories","source_label":"Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition","source_url":"https://fsus.ncbg.unc.edu/","status":"mapped_selected_fact"},"moisture":{"evidence_id":"fact:7e387b2fca4412d97e1fb1252d33a3522e2811ad737019b23bd2a7a51924473b","levels":[0],"policy":"selected-condition-categories-2","range":[0,0],"scope":{"kind":"region","region_id":"floraquest_nc_sc_ga"},"semantics":"documented_native_habitat_conditions","source_field":"habitat_moisture_categories","source_label":"Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition","source_url":"https://fsus.ncbg.unc.edu/","status":"mapped_selected_fact"}},"county_fips":["12009","12037","12075","12087","12089"],"fit_inputs":{"light":[0,3],"moisture":[0,0],"ph":null},"fit_note":"Shared sunlight, moisture and pH calculation; county geography is an additional layer. Missing source traits remain unknown.","fit_provenance":{"light":"Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition","moisture":"Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition"},"garden_suitability":{"default_excluded":false,"flags":[],"review_status":"not_assessed","suggestions_excluded":false},"invasive_rank":false,"native_eligible":true,"quercus_score":13,"state":"FL"},"garden_suitability":{"default_excluded":false,"flags":[],"review_status":"not_assessed","suggestions_excluded":false},"growing_observations":{"floraquest_carolinas_georgia":{"matched_name":"Ceratophyllum australe","retrieved":"2026-10-04T13:31:16.252589+00:00","scope":{"kind":"region","region_id":"floraquest_nc_sc_ga"},"scope_note":"Original regional ecological and identification evidence; no location-specific gardening adjustments.","source_label":"Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition","source_name":"Ceratophyllum australe","source_record_id":2422,"source_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_url":"https://fsus.ncbg.unc.edu/","trait_evidence":[{"field":"habitat_description","source_column":"HabitatText","source_database_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_record_id":2422,"source_table":"Organism","value":"Ponds, pools, slow-moving streams, solution holes in pine rocklands."},{"field":"geographic_range_description","source_column":"Description","source_database_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_record_id":2422,"source_table":"Organism","value":"Se. North Carolina south to s. Florida and Panhandle Florida, and in the West Indies; also in s. Mexico, Central America, n. South America, with apparent disjunctions in c. South America and the Galapagos Islands"},{"field":"phenology_source_text","source_column":"Phenology","source_database_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_record_id":2422,"source_table":"Organism","value":"May-Sep."},{"field":"taxonomic_synonymy","source_column":"Synonymy","source_database_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_record_id":2422,"source_table":"Organism","value":"[= K4, POWO, Szalontai et al (2018); = Ceratophyllum muricatum Chamisso ssp. australe (Griseb.) Les — Can, FNA3, K1, NS, WH3, Les (1985), Les (1986), Les (1988a), Les (1988b), Les (1988c), Les (1989); = n/a — RAB; Ceratophyllum muricatum Chamisso — GW2, Mex; Ceratophyllum submersum L. — S, S13; Ceratophyllum submersum L. ssp. muricatum (Cham.) Wilmot-Dear var. echinatum (A.Gray) Wilmot-Dear — Wilmot-Dear (1985)]"},{"field":"botanical_comments","source_column":"Comments","source_database_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_record_id":2422,"source_table":"Organism","value":"Les treated this taxon as a subspecies of the Old World C. muricatum . Because of their allopatric distribution on separate continents and relative morphological distinctiveness (as shown by Les), we prefer to recognize them at the species rank."},{"field":"heliophily_index","source_column":"HIndex","source_database_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_record_id":2422,"source_table":"Organism","value":2},{"field":"regional_wetland_indicators","source_column":"WetlandStatus1..5","source_database_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_record_id":2422,"source_table":"Organism","value":[{"source_column":"WetlandStatus1","value":"OBL"},{"source_column":"WetlandStatus2","value":"OBL"}]},{"field":"wetland_source_note","source_column":"WetlandNote","source_database_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_record_id":2422,"source_table":"Organism","value":"name change"},{"field":"habitat_moisture_categories","source_column":"Attr2","source_database_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_record_id":2422,"source_table":"GraphicKey","value":["Dry"]},{"field":"habitat_light_categories","source_column":"Attr3","source_database_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_record_id":2422,"source_table":"GraphicKey","value":["Partial shade","Full shade"]},{"field":"graphic_key_source_attributes","source_column":"Attr0..25","source_database_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_record_id":2422,"source_table":"GraphicKey","value":{"Attr0":"gr09","Attr1":"nc_cp,sc_cp,ga_cp,","Attr10":"nr","Attr11":"6+,many","Attr12":"s","Attr13":"nd,rad","Attr14":"nd","Attr15":"nd","Attr16":"n","Attr17":"DSN","Attr2":"Dry","Attr3":"Part,Shade","Attr3a":"y","Attr3a_subregion":"native_nc_cp:y,native_sc_cp:y,native_ga_cp:y,","Attr4":" 4-10","Attr5":"aq","Attr6":"glb","Attr7":"wh","Attr8":"c,s","Attr9":"in,nr,wi"}},{"field":"bloom_season","source_column":"Phenology","source_database_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_record_id":2422,"source_table":"Organism","value":"May to September"}],"values":{"bloom_season":"May to September","botanical_comments":"Les treated this taxon as a subspecies of the Old World C. muricatum . Because of their allopatric distribution on separate continents and relative morphological distinctiveness (as shown by Les), we prefer to recognize them at the species rank.","geographic_range_description":"Se. North Carolina south to s. Florida and Panhandle Florida, and in the West Indies; also in s. Mexico, Central America, n. South America, with apparent disjunctions in c. South America and the Galapagos Islands","graphic_key_source_attributes":{"Attr0":"gr09","Attr1":"nc_cp,sc_cp,ga_cp,","Attr10":"nr","Attr11":"6+,many","Attr12":"s","Attr13":"nd,rad","Attr14":"nd","Attr15":"nd","Attr16":"n","Attr17":"DSN","Attr2":"Dry","Attr3":"Part,Shade","Attr3a":"y","Attr3a_subregion":"native_nc_cp:y,native_sc_cp:y,native_ga_cp:y,","Attr4":" 4-10","Attr5":"aq","Attr6":"glb","Attr7":"wh","Attr8":"c,s","Attr9":"in,nr,wi"},"habitat_description":"Ponds, pools, slow-moving streams, solution holes in pine rocklands.","habitat_light_categories":["Partial shade","Full shade"],"habitat_moisture_categories":["Dry"],"heliophily_index":2,"phenology_source_text":"May-Sep.","regional_wetland_indicators":[{"source_column":"WetlandStatus1","value":"OBL"},{"source_column":"WetlandStatus2","value":"OBL"}],"taxonomic_synonymy":"[= K4, POWO, Szalontai et al (2018); = Ceratophyllum muricatum Chamisso ssp. australe (Griseb.) Les — Can, FNA3, K1, NS, WH3, Les (1985), Les (1986), Les (1988a), Les (1988b), Les (1988c), Les (1989); = n/a — RAB; Ceratophyllum muricatum Chamisso — GW2, Mex; Ceratophyllum submersum L. — S, S13; Ceratophyllum submersum L. ssp. muricatum (Cham.) Wilmot-Dear var. echinatum (A.Gray) Wilmot-Dear — Wilmot-Dear (1985)]","wetland_source_note":"name change"}}},"light_range":["deep shade","part sun"],"light_source":"Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition","native_synthesis":{"claims":[{"claim":"native","flag":"Y","matched_name":"Ceratophyllum australe","scope":"FL","source":"fl_atlas","url":"https://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/plant/species/1303"},{"claim":"native","matched_name":"Ceratophyllum australe","scope":"L48","source":"usda","text":"L48:N","url":"https://plants.usda.gov/"},{"claim":"native","matched_name":"Ceratophyllum australe","scope":"NC","source":"nc_flora","url":"https://auth1.dpr.ncparks.gov/flora/"},{"basis":"species account without the alien asterisk","claim":"native_distribution","matched_name":"Ceratophyllum australe","scope":"AL-AR-DC-DE-FL-GA-KY-LA-MD-MS-NC-NJ-PA-SC-TN-VA-WV","source":"weakley_fsus","url":"https://fsus.ncbg.unc.edu/"},{"basis":"Native field of the Florida edition; the state is in its distribution","claim":"native","record_id":2422,"scope":"FL","source":"floraquest_florida","url":"https://fsus.ncbg.unc.edu/"}],"county_native_range":"unresolved","decided_by":"fl_atlas","explanation":"Atlas of Florida Plants (published flora, state claim) gives the value, over a broader claim from a higher tier. Speaks for its own area (NC), not this state: Vascular Plants of North Carolina (NC Natural Heritage Program).","label":"Native to Florida (state-specific source)","provenance":{"flags":["over_higher_tier"],"source":"fl_atlas","specificity":"state","tier":"published_flora"},"rule":"fact-hierarchy-2","status":"native_supported"},"source_name":"Ceratophyllum australe","taxon_id":"taxon:7028dc53-9e2c-5af9-821f-524c7449edb1","revision":"publish:cdb975f5-333c-4482-92bd-514ef43ee9c3","photos":[]}