| Needle palm | |
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| Specimen planted in a Maryland back yard | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Arecales |
| Family: | Arecaceae |
| Subfamily: | Coryphoideae |
| Tribe: | Trachycarpeae |
| Genus: | Rhapidophyllum H.Wendl. & Drude |
| Species: | R. hystrix
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| Binomial name | |
| Rhapidophyllum hystrix | |
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Rhapidophyllum hystrix, the needle palm, is a palm native to coastal margins of the subtropical eastern Gulf and south Atlantic states of the United States. Populations can be found from coastal southeast South Carolina, southward to Florida and west across the coastal plain of Mississippi and southern Alabama.[2][3][4][5][6] It is one of the most cold-hardy palms in the world, and can be found growing in several areas with warm temperate climates.[7]
- ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0".
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Biota of North America Program, county distribution map
- ^ Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- ^ US Department of Agriculture Plants Profile
- ^ Palmpedia, Rhapidophyllum hystrix
- ^ Hardiest Palms, Needle Palm - Rhapidophyllum hystrix