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Iris verna var. smalliana
Noted for fragrance.
Casual shade garden. It spreads, so eventually acts as a groundcover.
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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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Did You Know?, Showy flowers
Attracts bees, esp. bumblebees.
- Stunning
- Wonderfully fragrant, carries a great distance
- Arched, recurving fronds
- Colorful older leaves
- Slow Growth
Amsonia tabernaemontana
Wildflower garden. Also useful as a cut flower.
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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, Poisonous foliage.
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Wildlife, Avoided by mammalian herbivores.
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Habitat, Moist hammocks, ruderal.
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Did You Know?, Fall color, Showy flowers
he flowers attract long-tongued insects such as carpenter bees, hummingbird moths, and butterflies. Ruby-throated hummingbi
- Produces aromatic flowers year-round
- Relatively uncommon in South Florida
- Unusually shaped, asymmetrical tree
- Bright red fruits
- Thick branching into attractive silouttes
- Elegant
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
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
