Wild Flowering Plants
Malvaceae family Pavonia paludicola Nicolson ex Fryxell in Howard, Fl. Lesser Antilles 5: 241, f. 94. 1989. Indigenous shrub of riverbanks in Pterocarpus forest. Very rare, possibly extinct. St. Martin, St. Barthélemy, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Marie Galante, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, rest of West Indies, North America, Mesoamerica, South America. Known from Fond D’Or, Dennery, where it might still exist, and from Cul de Sac, Castries, where I have not found it since 2003. |