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Phlebodium aureum
This is a native that makes Florida look tropical.
Herbarium specimens from Leon County say that the fern was likely brought in. Otherwise, the north
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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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Habitat, Hammocks. Epiphytic on cabbage palm. Occasionally in humus at ground level.
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Did You Know?, Interesting foliage
- Highly nutritious fruit
- Wonderfully fragrant flowers
- Wonderfully fragrant
- Colorful older leaves
- Attractive mottled bark
- Beautiful rounded canopy
Rudbeckia graminifolia
Endemic to Florida.
Occasionally grown as a curiosity.
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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 small birds.
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Habitat, Savannas near and in the Apalachicola National Forest.
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Did You Know?, Attracts bumble bees, butterflies
- Extremely popular
- Does best in warmer areas of South Florida
- Stunning during brief late spring bloom
- Not recommended
- Attracts butterflies
Paronychia rugelii
This low growing plant is a good ground cover
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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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Habitat, Woodlands, flat pinewoods, sandhill, scrub, disturbed areas in the coastal plain
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers
Likely attracts bees.
- Medium stature
- Very showy clusters of flowers
- Narrow enough for tight spaces
Sarracenia flava
Found from Alabama (probably also in Mississippi), east into Florida and up the coastal plain to Virginia with occasional outlying populations.
Trappi
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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, Savannas, bogs, seep slopes. Benefits from fire.
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers, Showy fruits, Interesting foliage
Insectivorous.
Larval host for epaulleted pitcher plant moth.
A number of insect groups visit the fl
- Uncommon edible fruit
- Fruit attracts wildlife
- Excellent choice for narrow spaces
Lysiloma latisiliquum
It's a legume, so nitrogen fixation may help it survive in low nutrient soils.
Fast growing.
Shade tree. Attractive for its lacy foliage. Does well a
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Tolerance, Tolerant of occasional/brief inundation such as can occur in storm surges.
Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
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Considertions, Fallen seed pods are messy, so use in a mulched landscape area.
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Wildlife, Attracts birds especially gnatcatchers, vireos, flycatchers, and migrating warbles (many eat the insects that are attracted to the flowers and leaves)
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Habitat, This is generally a species of disturbed areas in and around tropical rockland hammock and pine rocklands.
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Did You Know?, Interesting foliage
Larval host for Large Orange Sulfur (Phoebis agarithe), Mimosa Yellow (Eurema nise), amethyst hairstreak, and Cassius Blue (Lepto
- Stout, swollen trunk
- Delicious edible fruit
- Prominant gray-olive crownshaft
- Prominent blue-gray crownshaft
- Unique, stout pineapple-like trunk when young
- Attracts butterflies
