The sub-shrub known as Gopher Apple (Licania michauxii Prance) is a familiar plant of xeric soils of the Southeastern Coastal Plain, from South Carolina across southern Georgia to eastern Louisiana and southward to southern Florida (Godfrey 1988, Jones and Coile 1988, Prance 1989, Radford et al. 1968, Thomas and Allen 1996, Wunderlin 1998). It is consistently found in habitats where fire is a controlling factor, either annually or at intervals of several years. A low woody perennial, it spreads by means of rather stout, subterranean stems from which arise numerous suffrutescent flowering and fruiting branches. Where other vegetation has been cleared, as on graded roadsides, it frequently covers appreciable areas with hundreds of erect stems as the only visible portions of a single underground plant. The fruits, sweet-fleshed ellipsoidal drupes to 3.5 cm in length, are produced sparingly, often no more than one or two per aerial stem.