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Psychotria ligustrifolia
Specimen or hedge plant.
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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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Wildlife, Birds and other animals use the fruits
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Habitat, Tropocal hammocks, pine flatwoods.
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers, Showy fruits, Interesting foliage
Attracts bees and wasps, some flies, and other pollinators.
- Extremely versatile
- Distinctive-looking fruit with spiked exterior
- Beautiful rounded canopy
- Majestic and graceful
Symphyotrichum dumosum
Wildflower garden, meadow.
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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, Sandhills, flatwoods, pine-oak-hickory woods, floodplains, secondary woods, cutthroat seep.
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers
Attracts pollinators, especially native bees.
Larval host plant for pearl crescent (Phyciodes tharos) butterflies.
- Not a true pine
- Will not tolerate frost
- Massive, nutrient-dense edible fruit
Coreopsis floridana
This is one of our larger (taller and larger flowers) Coreopsis species.
Useful as a colorful wildflower along the edge of a wetland. Often overlooke
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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, Wet prairie, herbaceous seepage areas, wet roadsides.
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers
Attracts many different butterflies and pollinators.
- Easily trimmed for smaller spaces
- Narrow canopy
- Stately and uncommon
- Attractive dark green leaves
Silene catesbaei
Rare and listed as endangered. Please obtain this plant only from reputable native plant nurseries or friends -- do not harvest from the wild. Little
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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, Slope forest. On calcareous soils.
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers
Visited by small insects including bees but the specific pollinators are apparently not known.
- Uniquely shaped with a muscular look
- Showy reddish peeling bark
- Produces aromatic flowers year-round
- Available multi-stalked
- Somewhat salt tolerant
- Can be kept narrow
Sarracenia psittacina
In natural settings, benefits from fire.
Bog 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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Habitat, Bogs, savannas, seep slopes, seepy edges of marshes and wet prairies, seepy roadside swales.
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers, Showy fruits, Interesting foliage
Pollinated by bees
- Lovely dark green, shiny leaves
- Often hosts orchids, ferns and bromiliads
- Very slow growth
- Attractive shade tree
- Flowers profusely year round
- Unique flowers, with petals like banana peels
Symphyotrichum chapmanii
Based on the BONAP range map, this species is a "near endemic" -- it occurs only in the panhandle and a 3 counties in southern Alabama.
At this time,
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Tolerance, Unknown
Unknown
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Wildlife, Small birds eat the seed.
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Habitat, Wet flatwoods, bogs, savannahs, prairies
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers
Nectar plant for many butterfly species but also visited by other native insect pollinators.
- Beautiful, natural globe shape
- Uncommon
- No longer recommended
Quercus inopina
Endemic to the sand ridges of central and northern peninsular Florida.
Forms a thicket with many sprouts from underground stems.
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Tolerance, Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.
Moderate. Tolerant of salty wind and may get some salt spray. Exposure to salt spray wo
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Wildlife, Small mammals use the acorns.
Provides significant food and cover for wildlife.
The acorns are utilized by squirrels.
An important food source for th
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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
- Available multi-stalked
- Tall and stately
- Narrow crown
- Somewhat drought tolerant
Chiococca alba
Nice blog article by Florida Wildflower Foundation.
Background plant somewhere between a shrub and vine in character.
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Tolerance, Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.
Moderate. Tolerant of salty wind and may get some salt spray. Exposure to salt spray wo
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Considertions, Weak--needs support. Can be aggressive in the home landscape.
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Wildlife, Birds and other wildlife consume fruit.
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Habitat, Coastal hammocks, pine rocklands, coastal flats, disturbed forest edges.
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers, Showy fruits
Larval host for the Miami blue butterfly (Cyclargus thomasi) and Snowberry clearwing moth (Hemaris diffinis).
Attracts a
- Often hosts orchids, ferns and bromiliads
- Does best in warmer areas of South Florida
- Attractive blue-green to silver leaflets
- Sprawling and informal shrub
Prunus myrtifolia
Listed as Threatened by the FDACS.
Specimen tree, edge plant, or part of a clump of trees.
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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, Primarily dispersed by birds but other animals also eat the fruit.
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Habitat, Tropical rockland hammock, pine rockland.
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers, Interesting foliage
Pollinated by bees.
- Attractive dark green leaves
- Wind tolerant
- Highly salt tolerant
- Attractive symmetrical appearance
- Dense attractive foliage
