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Fagus grandifolia
Shade tree. It is known for its smooth light gray bark. Its leaves turn yellow and then light brown remaining on the tree until nearly spring and prov
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Tolerance, Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.
Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
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Considertions, This is a large tree that will produce dense shade and many root suckers. Take this into consideration when deciding where to plant it. Slow growing.
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Wildlife, Fruits (a nut in a bur) are valued by wildlife.
Tree valued for nesting by some songbirds.
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Habitat, Upland, mesic to dry mesic hardwood forests.
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Did You Know?, Interesting bark, Fall color, Interesting foliage
Larval host for walnut sphinx (Amorpha juglandis).
- Excellent choice for narrow spaces
- Excellent small hedge
- Critically endangered
- Ideal for smaller spaces
Bidens alba
Many of us think of this is a weed that we allow to grow for its value to insects.
Casual settings, especially toward the rear of wildflower gardens
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Tolerance, Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.
Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
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Considertions, Once you have this plant, you will always have this plant. It can be quite weedy. The seeds have barbs which stick to clothing and pet fur.
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Habitat, Ruderal.
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers
Attracts native bees, butterflies.
Larval host for the dainty sulphur (Nathalis iole) butterfly.
- Moderately salt tolerant
- Relatively uncommon in South Florida
- Attractive blue-green to silver leaflets
Bacopa caroliniana
Lemon bacopa is distinguished by blue flowers, a hairy upper stem, and by the lemony scent of its crushed foliage.
Spreading ground cover around the
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Tolerance, Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.
Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
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Habitat, Marshes, swamps, ditches
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers
Larval host plant for white peacock (Anartia jatrophae) butterflies. Insect pollinated.
- Thrives only briefly, about 1 year
- Showy red berries
- Highly nutritious fruit
Cakile lanceolata
Pronuciation : Ca-ki-le lan-see-oh-lay-tuh The searocket blooms July through September. Annual to short-lived perennial.
Searocket is best used to ho
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Tolerance, Tolerant of occasional/brief inundation such as can occur in storm surges.
High. Can tolerate significant and ongoing amounts of salty wind and salt
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Habitat, Coastal dunes. Identified along the Indian River lagoon and the Atlantic shoreline to the Gulf and across to the panhandle of Florida.
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Did You Know?, Hurricane wind resistance
Attracts butterflies and bees.
Larval host for the great southern white(Ascia monuste phileta).
- Mostly bare in the coldest months
- Prominent blue-gray crownshaft
- Striking and exotic
- Rare and unique
- Extremely popular
Sagittaria lancifolia
Grow as an emergent along pond or lake edges or in aquatic gardens.
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Tolerance, Tolerant of inundation with brackish water
Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
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Wildlife, Birds and other wildlife eat the fruit.
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Habitat, Marshes, wetter portions of wet prairies, swamps, roadside ditches with marsh-like character.
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers, Interesting foliage
Flowers attract pollinators.
- Stunning during brief late spring bloom
- Often hosts orchids, ferns and bromiliads
- Abundance of orange-red flowers in summer
- Majestic, sprawling canopy
- Available single or multi-stalked
- Uniquely shaped with a muscular look
Pontederia cordata
The natural range in Florida appears to include the entire mainland and exclude the Florida keys. Herbarium specimen in the Florida Keys was in a man
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Tolerance, Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.
Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
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Wildlife, Ducks love the plants and a risk is that they might devour an entire planting.
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Habitat, Marshes, swamps, slow moving streams.
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers, Interesting foliage
Attracts butterflies and bees. Documented bee visitors include Hylaeus schwarzi, Dianthidiuin floridiense, Cerati
- Salt tolerant
- Sometime grows horozontially
- Susceptible to breakage, even in moderate winds
Clematis baldwinii
In full sun areas, this plant will become close to dormant in the summer. Cutting back dried out foliage will stimulate new growth in the Fall.
Endemi
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Tolerance, Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.
Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
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Considertions, Easily lost in flower beds.
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Wildlife, Birds and other wildlife consume fruit (https://flawildflowers.org/)
Hummingbirds occasionally visit the flowers (International Clematis Society)
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Habitat, Wet flatwoods. Scrub and sandhill
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers, Showy fruits, Interesting foliage
Pine-hyacinth attracts many pollinators, from bumblebees and other native bees to butterflies.
- Falls over easily, may require staking
- Very full crown
- Beautiful pinwheel flowers, often multicolored
- Wind tolerant
- Extremely versatile
Pinus serotina
Rarely grown. This tree occurs predominantly in the coastal plain (withoutliers) from eastern Alabama north to southern New Jersey.
Shade tree for m
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Tolerance, Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.
Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
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Wildlife, Birds, squirrels and other animals eat the seeds.
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Habitat, Moist-wet sites. Hydric to mesic seep slopes, fringes of cypress and mixed hardwood swamps, wet flatwoods, mesic flatwoods.
- Dense attractive foliage
- Fragrant clusters of flowers in fall
- Iconic symbol of the south
- Unique and prized
- Recently classified invasive
- Prefers acidic soil
Quercus pumila
Forms a low thicket with many sprouts from underground stems.
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Tolerance, Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.
Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
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Wildlife, Small mammals, including squirrels, use the acorns.
Provides significant food and cover for wildlife.
The acorns are utilized by squirrels.
An import
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Habitat, Scrub, scrubby flatwoods, scrubby sandhill.
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Did You Know?, Hurricane wind resistance
Larval host for Horace's duskywing (Erynnis horatius), red-banded hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops) and white-M hairstreak (P
- Extremely versatile
- Requires shade when young
- Adequate moisture required
- Deciduous
- Forms an open canopy
Persea humilis
Do not plant this plant unless you are absolutely sure that it is not infected by laurel wilt disease. In general, this small bay seems to be escapin
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Tolerance, Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.
Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray.
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Considertions, This small tree appears to less likely to be killed by laurel wilt than Florida's other bays.. It is likely that it is too small to attract the beetle
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Wildlife, Fruits eaten and dispersed by birds.
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Habitat, Dry sites. Scrub, high pine, scrubby sandhill.
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Did You Know?, Interesting foliage
Larval host plant for palamedes swallowtail (Papilio palamedes) and spicebush swallowtail (Papilio troilus) butterflies.
Attracts
- Decorative diamond-shaped trunk pattern
- Very fast growth rate
- Attractive light to medium green crownshaft
Sabatia brevifolia
Not generally grown, little information on culture has been located.
Wildflower in moist casual setting.
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Tolerance, Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.
Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
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Habitat, Moist flatwoods, savannas.
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers
Bees have been documented using this species including Dialictus nymphalis and D. tegularis (Deyrup et al. 2002).
- Breathtaking
- Self-shedding fronds
- Fragrant clusters of flowers in fall
- Recently classified invasive
- Ringed trunk
- Grows tall, but not massive
Heliopsis helianthoides var. gracilis
Informal wildflower gardens.
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Tolerance, Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.
Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
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Wildlife, Seeds eaten by birds.
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Habitat, Pine-oak-hickory woods, longleaf pinelands, bluffs.
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers
Attracts butterflies and bees but the list of insects is diverse and includes hoverflies and soldier beetles. The ground nesting bee,
- Unique swollen blue-green to silver trunk
- Colorful new leafs
- Beautiful, natural globe shape
