![]() Several groups, including the Florida Natural Area Inventory, are monitoring the plant's spread, and its potential to displace native plant species. The Florida Exotic Plant Pest Council has not classified it as such here (two of its cousins were added as invasives in 2017). Somewhere along the line, it escaped into the wilds of South Florida where it has become established.ĭevil's backbone is only found growing wild in Florida among the 48 contiguous states, but it's also found in Hawaii and Puerto Rico, where it is considered an invasive. The problem is that it reproduces like crazy. ![]() It is a succulent, a native of Madagascar that is cultivated as an ornamental and as a house plant. It's also an increasingly problematic one.
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