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Kosteletzkya pentacarpos
Wetland wildflower garden.
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Tolerance, Tolerant of inundation with brackish water
Moderate. Tolerant of salty wind and may get some salt spray. Exposure to salt spray would be uncommon (
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Wildlife, Attracts hummingbirds.
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Habitat, Salt, brackish, or fresh water marshes, sloughs, ditches, borders of mangrove and other swamps, wet forest clearings.
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers
Attracts butterflies and various pollinators.
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Propagation, Fruit ones don't come true from seed so propagate vegetatively with either cuttings or by grafting onto a hardy
rootstock.
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Did You Know?, The plant is smaller, typically a large shrub, and more cold hardy. The fruits are sweet, with a thinner, edible red skin and the white flesh interior
- Flowers profusely year round
- Easy/Carefree
- Moderately salt tolerant
- Showy creamy white flowers
- Wonderfully fragrant flowers
Teucrium canadense
Moist wildflower garden. Makes a good mass planting on the edge of a pond or ditch.
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Tolerance, Tolerant of inundation with brackish water
Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray.
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Considertions, This plant will spread to form a large colony in moist areas. Plant where this is an asset.
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Wildlife, Occasionally visited by humminbirds (Wikipedia)
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Habitat, Swamps, floodplains, marshes, wet meadows, wet pastures, margins of lakes and ponds, cypress domes, ditches, disturbed sites.
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers
Pollinators include bumblebees, honey bees, digger bees, cuckoo bees and megachilid bees.
Nectar plant for butterflies and (occasional
- Salt tolerant
- Does best in warmer areas of South Florida
- Requires ample space and light
Aletris lutea
Moist wildflower garden. As it is tall and thin, it's best planted as a group toward the rear of other plants.
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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, Open seepage areas, flatwoods, moist ditches.
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers
Pollinated by bumblebees and beeflies.
- Pleasant rounded shape
- Native
- Dense canopy
- Elegant
- Beautiful, natural globe shape
