Myrica cerifera
Native Range
Native Continent
Northern America, Southern America
Northern America
United States, New Jersey (south), Oklahoma, Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Texas, Mexico, Durango, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán de Ocampo, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Yucatán,Southern America
Hispaniola, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cuba, Jamaica, United States, Puerto Rico, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama (west), El Salvador,Natural Habitat
Thickets on sandy soil near swamps and marshes, also on dry arid hills in which situation it is often only a few centimetres tall.