Table 1.  List of endemic (E) and relict (R) plants and animals whose geographic distribution is confined to or centered on the Apalachicola Lowlands. 

Species

Endemic (E)
or Relict (R)

Confined

Centered
Angiosperms
Pinewoods aster
(Aster spinulosus)

E

X

  
Scare-weed
(Baptisia simplicifolia)

E

X

  
Harper’s beauty
(Harperocallis flava)

E

X

  
Thick-leaved water willow
(Justicia crassifolia)

E

  

X
White birds-in-a-nest
(Macbridea alba)

E

  

X
Florida beargrass
(Nolina atopocarpa)

E

  

X
Giant water dropwort
(Oxypolis filiformes ssp. greenmanii)

E

X

  
Carolina grass of parnassus
(Parnassia caroliniana)

R

X

  
Large flowered grass of parnassus
(Parnassia grandifolia)

R

X

  
Narrow-leaved Phoebanthus
(Phoebanthus tenuifolia)

E

X

  
Apalachicola Dragonhead
(Physostegia godfreyi)

E

  

X
Violet butterwort
(Pinguicula ionantha)

E

  

X
Chapman’s butterwort
(Pinguicula planifolia)

E

  

X
Small-flowered meadow beauty
(Rhexia parviflora)

E

  

X
Florida skullcap
(Scutellaria floridana)

E

X

  
Mock pennyroyal
(Stachyedeoma graveolens)

E

  

X
Chapman’s crownbeard
(Verbesina chapmanii)

E

  

X
Serpentes
Brown-chinned racer
(Coluber constrictor helvigularis)

E

  

X
Eastern Apalachicola Lowlands Kingsnake
(Lampropeltis getula ssp.)

E

X