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Species Questionnaire

Hyptis brevipes

  • Please answer ALL the following questions with regard to the species indicated above. The information you provide will be incorporated in the IFAS Assessment to summarize relevant ecological, management and commercial concerns for the species indicated. Conclusions derived from the IFAS Assessment are intended to prevent or reduce the likelihood of further invasion of natural areas by non-native plants.
    Your input is crucial!

  • Part I: Ecological Impacts

    • 1. Please list
      natural areasNatural areas. Areas of Florida (public or private) with designated management objectives that include the conservation of native biodiversity. While a range of activities may be conducted on these areas (e.g.,prescribed fire, low intensity grazing), those activities are designed to be compatible with the conservation objective. State and local governments and some private landowners, for example, manage natural areas both for recreation, grazing, forestry or other harvest values and for conservation values. These areas would be included in the assessment of invasion, with clearly identifiable edges disregarded. Species that invade only adjacent to roads, trails, fire lanes, recent dredge spoil, formerly cultivated areas, expanses of bare soil, etc. should not be identified as invaders with impacts in natural areas because their persistence and spread is anthropogenically disturbed zones in the natural area. Populations of species that spread along these disturbed zones but disperse over 10 yards into more intact natural areas would be included as invading. Ecological impacts would be assessed only where the population has spread into the intact natural areas and not within the source population in the disturbed or formerly cultivated area.
      in Florida where
      youIf you are a supervisor reporting observations collected from your crews, YOU must have personally seen any ecological impacts for which there is a YES response in questions 5 - 11, otherwise the reports must be made and signed by the personnel who have made the field observations.
      have seen this plant. If numerous please list just the counties and number of infested natural areas per county.

      *You may list multiple areas/counties. The Natural Area (NA) number is a reference shortcut; the order of listing is not important.

    • NA#
      Natural Area/Conservation Area Name
      Acres Infested
      Approximate the infested area using actual acres that contain plants of this species that would need to be managed (not the area that would be covered if the known plants were condensed together).
      Additional Acres to Survey
      Approximate the additional acreage that would need to be surveyed for new infestations.
      # of Discrete Populations
      Discrete populations are at least one mile apart and likely arose by separate long-distance dispersal mechanisms.
      County
      1.
      		 

      + Add Another Natural Area

    • If applicable, you may include comments about the Natural Areas listed above.

    • 2. Does the plant species occur and persist in the natural areas listed above without cultivation or anthropogenic disturbance?

    • 3. Does this species cause long term alterations in ecosystem processes?

      (*Note: Species that are excessively competing for light with neighboring species will be addressed in Question 8.)

    • Please list all natural areas (NA numbers) that apply

    • Select all that apply

    • Please list all natural areas (NA numbers) that apply

    • Select all that apply

    • Please list all natural areas (NA numbers) that apply

    • If "other" was selected above, please explain here.

    • 4. Has this species been observed to cause the displacement, death, or hybridization of Federal or Florida listed Threatened or Endangered plants or animals or Species of Special Concern?

    • List NAs and scientific name(s) of impacted species

    • List NAs and scientific name(s) of impacted species

    • 5. If you were looking down on a typical infestation of this species, would the species
      coverageVisual or quantitative estimate of the relative amount of area in a stratum where the canopy of the non-native species intercepts the light that would otherwise be available for other species in or below that stratum. Estimated cover may be dispersed or continuous in a site. Cover is usually measured when foliage is fully expanded. In the case of species that form a dense, continuous mat of rhizomes or stolons, the percent of the soil surface or upper level occupied by that root mat can be estimated as soil, rather than canopy, cover.
      in the infested
      stratumA distinct layer in the architecture of vegetation e.g., tree canopy or understory shrubs).
      be at least 50% in ANY of the natural areas listed above?

    • Please list NA number(s) for YES responses and any comments

    • 6. Are there natural areas that are ≤ 0.25 acres but where an entire localized community is infested (e.g.,sinkhole)?

    • Please list NA number(s) for YES responses and any comments

    • 7. Does this species cover more than 15% of the invaded stratum in ANY natural area not listed in question 5?

    • Please list NA number(s) for YES responses and any comments

    • 8. Aside from displacing native vegetation, does this species change community structure in other ways?

    • Please list all natural areas (NA numbers) that apply

    • Select all that apply

    • Please list all natural areas (NA numbers) that apply

    • Select all that apply

    • Please list all natural areas (NA numbers) that apply

    • If "other" was selected above, please explain here.

    • 9. Does this species hybridize with native Florida plants or commercially important species?

    • List NAs and scientific name(s) of native species

    • List NAs and scientific name(s) of native species

    • 10. Use the NA numbers to indicate in which of the following natural communities6 this species occurs.

      (an NA number may be used more than once if the species occurs in more than one community within an infested natural area)

    • Natural CommunitiesNA Numbers
      Xeric uplandsSandhill, scrub, xeric hammock
      Coastal uplandsBeach dune, coastal berm, grassland, rock barren, strand, maritime hammock, shell mounds
      Mesic uplandsBluff, slope forest, upland glade, hardwood forest, mixed forest, pine forest
      RocklandsPine rockland, rockland hammock, sinkholes
      Mesic flatlandsDry prairie, mesic flatwoods, prairie hammock, scrubby flatwoods
      Wet flatlandsHydric hammock, marl prairie, wet flatwoods, wet prairies
      Seepage wetlandsBay gall, seepage slope
      Floodplain wetlandsBottomland forest, floodplain, forest, marsh, swamp, freshwater tidal swamp, slough, strand swamp, swale
      Basin wetlandsBasin, marsh, swamp, bog, coastal interdunal swale, depression marsh, dome swamp
      Lakes and riversAll types of freshwater lakes, rivers and streams
      Tidal wetlandsMarine and estuarine tidal marshes and swamps

  • Part II: Management Impacts

    • 11. What permitted control methods are you aware of that could eliminate individuals of this species?

      Please include the name(s) of herbicides and/or provide a specific control method if "other" is chosen.

    • Select all that apply

    • 12. Is this species difficult to control without significant damage to native species?

    • List Natural Areas (NA Numbers) that apply

    • Select all that apply

    • List Natural Areas (NA Numbers) that apply

    • Select all that apply

    • 13. Is further site restoration necessary following plant death to reverse ecosystem impacts and/or to prevent immediate re-colonization of the invader?

    • 14. Are total costs of control in the first year, including access, personnel, equipment, materials, and revegetation, if needed, greater than $1,500/acre?

    • 15. Following the first year of control of this species, would it be expected that individual sites would require resurvey or re-treatment?

    • 16. Are any of the areas to be surveyed and/or controlled difficult to reach either by surface vehicle or on foot (with equipment)?

    • If YES was selected above, please list the natural area(s) (using the NA numbers)

    • 17. Are the number of viable, independent propagules (e.g., seeds, spores, fragments, tubers, etc. detached from parent) produced per mature plant per year greater than 200?

    • If YES was selected above, please list the natural area(s) (using the NA numbers)

    • 18. Have you observed any of the following:

    • 19. Is the age at first reproduction (by seed or vegetative means) within the first 10% of the likely life span of the plant and/or less than 3 months?

    • 20. The information you have provided is accurate and you consent to its application towards the IFAS Assessment of Non-Native Plants in Florida's Natural Areas.