Eastern lilaeopsis (Lilaeopsis chinensis) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 4
Distribution
Global range
Reported from the Atlantic Coast of the USA, from Maine to Florida, west along the Gulf Coast to Texas (BONAP 1998; Figure 2). A disjunct population occurs in southern Nova Scotia.
Figure 2. North American range of Lilaeopsis chinensis, based on Affolter (1985), BONAP (1998) and Pronych and Wilson (1993).
Canadian range
L. chinensis is found in Canada only on the southern coast of Nova Scotia (Figure 3). In Nova Scotia, the species has been confirmed at three estuaries at the mouths of the Tusket, Medway and LaHave rivers. Keddy (1987) found L. chinensis at the Tusket and Medway rivers, but only the Tusket River had been visited with the purpose of looking for L. chinensis since 1986; a specimen from that site was retained in 1998. Despite searches at other estuaries in the area, Keddy (1987) found no other population of L. chinensis. However, a voucher was collected near the mouth of the LaHave River in 1992 (Pronych and Wilson 1993). Pronych and Wilson (1993) also map an additional site, without specimen data, in the Ten Mile Lake area (Holder and Kingsley 2001); mapped records in Pronych and Wilson (1993) are often not accurate (Holder and Kingsley 2001).
Field investigations in 2002 found populations at the three previously reported collection sites, but no other population was located.
Figure 3. Canadian distribution of Lilaeopsis chinensis.
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