Sabal minor

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Sabal minor
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Genus: Sabal
Species:
S. minor
Binomial name
Sabal minor
Synonyms [3]
Synonymy
  • Corypha minorJacq.
  • Sabal adansoniiGuerns.
  • Chamaerops glabraMill.
  • Corypha pumilaWalter
  • Rhapis arundinaceaAiton
  • Chamaerops acaulisMichx.
  • Sabal carolinianaPoir.
  • Rhapis acaulis(Michx.) Walter ex Willd.
  • Chamaerops arundinacea(Aiton) Sm.
  • Chamaerops louisianaDarby
  • Sabal adiantinaRaf.
  • Sabal pumila(Walter) Elliott
  • Sabal minimaNutt.
  • Chamaerops sabaloidesBaldwin ex Darl.
  • Brahea minima(Nutt.) H.Wendl.
  • Sabal glabra(Mill.) Sarg.
  • Sabal deeringianaSmall
  • Sabal floribundaKatzenstein
  • Sabal speciosaL.H.Bailey
  • Sabal louisiana(Darby) Bomhard

Sabal minor, commonly known as the dwarf palmetto, [4] is a small species of palm. It is native to the deep southeastern and south-central United States and northeastern Mexico. It is naturally found in a diversity of habitats, including maritime forests, swamps, floodplains, and occasionally on drier sites. [5] It is often found growing in calcareous marl soil. [6] Sabal minor is one of the most frost and cold tolerant among North American palms.

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Distribution

This palm's native range spans on the Atlantic Coast from central Florida north to Monkey Island, North Carolina. [6] On the Gulf Coast, it spans from central Florida to central Texas, Arkansas, north to southern Oklahoma and northern Alabama, then south in the State of Nuevo León in Mexico. [3]

Description

Sabal Minor grows up to 3 meters in height, with a trunk up to 30 centimetres (12 in) diameter. It is a fan palm (Arecaceae tribe Corypheae), with the leaves with a bare petiole terminating in a rounded fan of numerous leaflets. Each leaf is 1.5–2 metres (4 ft 11 in – 6 ft 7 in) long, with 40 leaflets up to 80 centimetres (31 in) long, conjoined over half of this length. The flowers are yellowish-white, 5 millimetres (0.20 in) across, produced in large compound panicles up to 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) long, extending out beyond the leaves. The fruit is a black drupe 1 to 1.3 centimetres (0.39 to 0.51 in) long containing a single seed. [5]

Cultivation

Sabal minor is one of the most cold hardy palms in cultivation; however, it does best when grown in hot and humid tropical summer conditions, and may struggle or grow slowly in cool summer climates. It is leaf hardy to near 0 °F (−18 °C), and has been known to survive brief periods of −5 °F (−21 °C) temperatures. It is generally cultivated in subtropical and warm temperate climates. S. minor can grow in a wide variety of soil types, and is often found submerged in swamps in the southeastern United States. It grows in both full sun and shaded locations, though it will do best in the cooler garden zones (below zone USDA 7) in full sun and a wind sheltered location.

In the United States, since the 1960s, cultivation of Sabal minor has spread beyond the deep southern United States. S. minor is cultivated along the East Coast from Florida to Connecticut, and on the West Coast from Vancouver BC south to San Diego. It is a recommended horticultural plant by the Virginia Cooperative Extension. [7] There are several cultivars, including those from the Outer Banks of North Carolina (northernmost strains), and those from Oklahoma and Texas. One popular strain is 'McCurtain', named after McCurtain County, Oklahoma, where they are native. These tend to remain trunkless and smaller than those from warmer areas. S. minor is a popular landscape palm in coastal resort areas from Virginia Beach, Virginia, to southern Texas.

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References

  1. IUCN SSC Global Tree Specialist Group (2020). "Sabal minor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2020: e.T79521201A79521207. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T79521201A79521207.en . Retrieved 21 November 2022.
  2. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
  3. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "'Sabal minor'". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  5. 1 2 Sabal minor in Flora of North America
  6. 1 2 "Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States by Alan Weakley".
  7. Care Sheet for Sabal minor or “Dwarf Palmetto” in Virginia Landscapes Fact and Care Sheet for Virginia Gardens