Gopher-apple

High tolerance for salt spray (IFAS).



Groundcover in dry, sunny settings.  Can also make a good soil stabilizer.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Moderate. Tolerant of salty wind and may get some salt spray. Exposure to salt spray would be uncommon (major storms).

Fruits are eaten by small mammals and gopher tortoises.

Scrub, scrubby flatwoods, sandhill, dry secondary woods. Pine rocklands.

• Showy flowers
• Butterflies including buckeyes, rattlebox moths, wasps, ants and bees use the flowers.  Bees are the primary pollinators. Documented bees include  Colletes sp. A, Agaposternon splendens, Augochlorella aurata, Augochloropsis metallica, A. sumptuosa, Dialictus nyinphalis, Sphecodes heraclei, Megachile brevispseudobrevis, Epeoluszonatus and Apis inellifera (Deyrup et al. 2002)