Virginia Sabal minor Population?

[L.A.M.]

If anyone has photographic proof of wild Sabal minor in Virginia, I'd like to know. I believe they're real, but finding wild ones isn't easy even where they're widespread and common and for people knowing where to look.

In my recent catalog of palm species native to every USA state/territory, I listed Sabal minor as present in Tennessee and Virginia despite the lack of formal documentation given the absence of evidence to the contrary, sheer number of rural places along Tennessee's southern border they could plausibly be (not to mention that there's a population of them recently plainly visible in downtown Hornsby) and difficulty in properly exploring the Great Dismal Swamp. There's also a discussion about the likelihood of a wild Tennessee population, and I'm convinced that at least the Hornsby population is legitimate. Remember, dwarf palmettos are so small that they don't really stand out in the swamps, jungles and savannas from roads and so slow-growing that they take decades to really recover in newly urbanized areas; I couldn't even see the Cherokee nor McCurtain palmettos in street view no matter how hard I tried and struggle to find plainly visible dwarf palmettos in Arkansas and North Carolina (in both of which it's long been common knowledge that they're common and widespread). If there are plainly visible wild dwarf palmettos in Tennessee and I can't find the wild ones in Oklahoma nor North Alabama nor easily find them in the right parts of Arkansas or North Carolina, I see no reason to believe that Virginia is devoid of dwarf palmettos - which is to say no reason at all. Most land is privately owned even in seemingly hostile areas, and views from roads and urban areas are limited overall and deceptive due to the disturbance.

Edited October 24, 2023 by L.A.M.