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Florida - North Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in North Florida. Visit our Suppliers Directory to locate businesses that sell native plants or seeds or provide professional landscape or consulting services in this state. Visit the Organizations Directory to locate native plant societies, conservation groups, governmental agencies, botanical gardens, arboreta, and other plant-related organizations in this state. Special thanks to the Florida Association of Native Nurseries for compiling this list.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Acer barbatum | Southern sugar maple Florida maple Caddo maple Rock maple | |
| Acer negundo | Ash-leaf maple Ash-leaved maple Box elder Boxelder Fresno de guajuco | |
| Acer rubrum | Red maple Scarlet maple | |
| Acer saccharinum | Silver maple Soft maple White maple | |
| Adiantum capillus-veneris | Southern maidenhair fern Common maidenhair fern Maidenhair fern Venus hair fern | |
| Aesculus pavia | Scarlet Buckeye Red buckeye Firecracker plant | |
| Agarista populifolia | Florida hobblebush Tall fetterbush Florida leucothoe Agarista | |
| Alnus serrulata | Hazel alder Brookside alder Tag alder Common alder | |
| Amsonia ciliata | Fringed bluestar Bluestar Blue funnel lily Texas bluestar | |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo bush False indigo bush False indigo Desert false indigo | |
| Amsonia tabernaemontana | Eastern bluestar Blue dogbane Willow amsonia Woodland bluestar | |
| Andropogon ternarius | Splitbeard bluestem | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern red columbine Wild red columbine | |
| Arisaema dracontium | Green dragon Dragonroot Greendragon | |
| Aralia spinosa | Devil's walkingstick Devil’s walking-stick Prickly Ash Hercules club Angelica tree | |
| Arisaema triphyllum | Jack in the pulpit Indian jack in the pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit | |
| Asimina parviflora | Smallflower pawpaw Small-flower pawpaw Dwarf pawpaw | |
| Asimina triloba | Pawpaw Common paw paw Indian banana | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| Athyrium filix-femina | Common ladyfern Lady fern Ladyfern Subarctic lady fern | |
| Baccharis halimifolia | Groundseltree Sea-myrtle Consumptionweed Eastern baccharis Groundsel Groundsel bush Salt marsh-elder Salt bush Florida groundsel bush | |
| Batis maritima | Seaside saltwort Turtleweed | |
| Bacopa monnieri | Coastal Water-hyssop Herb-of-grace Water hyssop | |
| Betula nigra | River birch Red birch | |
| Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
| Borrichia frutescens | Bushy seaside tansy Bushy seaside-tansy Ox-eye daisy Sea daisy Sea ox-eye | |
| Callicarpa americana | American beautyberry French mulberry | |
| Carya aquatica | Water hickory Bitter pecan | |
| Catalpa bignonioides | Southern catalpa Cigar tree Indian bean | |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American hornbeam Blue beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
| Canna flaccida | Bandanna of the Everglades Golden canna | |
| Carya glabra | Pignut hickory | |
| Callirhoe papaver | Woodland Poppy-mallow Woodland poppymallow | |
| Castanea pumila | Chinkapin Allegheny chinquapin Allegheny-chinkapin Chinquapin | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet creeper Trumpet vine Common trumpet creeper Cow vine | |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern redbud Redbud | |
| Celtis laevigata | Sugar hackberry Hackberry Sugarberry Texas sugarberry Palo blanco | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common buttonbush Buttonbush Button willow | |
| Chamaecyparis thyoides | Atlantic white cedar Atlantic white-cedar | |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White fringetree Fringe tree Grancy Graybeard | |
| Clethra alnifolia | Coastal sweet pepperbush Clethra Summer sweet | |
| Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense | Jamaica swamp sawgrass Jamaican Saw-grass Saw-grass | |
| Cliftonia monophylla | Buckwheat tree Buckwheat bush | |
| Conradina canescens | False rosemary Wild rosemary Conradina | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue mistflower | |
| Cornus florida | Flowering dogwood Virginia dogwood | |
| Cornus foemina | Stiff dogwood Swamp dogwood | |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf coreopsis Lanceleaf tickseed Lance-leaved coreopsis Sand coreopsis | |
| Coreopsis leavenworthii | Common Tickseed Leavenworth's tickseed | |
| Crinum americanum | Crinum lily Seven sisters Swamp lily Southern swamp lily String lily | |
| Crataegus crus-galli | Cockspur hawthorn Cockspur thorn Newcastle hawthorn Newcastle thorn | |
| Crataegus flava | Summer hawthorn Yellow-leaf hawthorn Yellowleaf hawthorn | |
| Crataegus marshallii | Parsley hawthorn | |
| Crataegus spathulata | Littlehip hawthorn Pasture haw | |
| Cyperus odoratus | Fragrant flatsedge Fragrant Sedge | |
| Cyrilla racemiflora | Swamp titi Titi Leatherwood Swamp cyrilla Palo colorado | |
| Decumaria barbara | Decumaria Climbing hydrangea Woodvamp | |
| Distichlis spicata | Saltgrass Coastal salt grass Inland salt-grass | |
| Diospyros virginiana | Common persimmon Eastern persimmon | |
| Dryopteris ludoviciana | Southern woodfern Florida shieldfern | |
| Dyschoriste oblongifolia | Oblongleaf snakeherb Twin Flower | |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern purple coneflower Purple coneflower | |
| Equisetum hyemale | Canuela Horsetail Scouring rush Scouringrush horsetail | |
| Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee bean Red cardinal | |
| Euonymus americanus | American strawberry-bush Strawberry bush Brook euonymus Hearts-a-burstin Bursting-heart Wahoo | |
| Eubotrys racemosa | Fetter-bush Leucothoe Swamp doghobble Sweet-bells Leucothe Sweetbells | |
| Fagus grandifolia | American beech | |
| Forestiera acuminata | Eastern swamp-privet Eastern swampprivet | |
| Fraxinus americana | White ash | |
| Frangula caroliniana | Carolina buckthorn Carolina false buckthorn Indian cherry | |
| Fraxinus caroliniana | Carolina ash Pop Ash | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green ash Red ash | |
| Gaylussacia dumosa | Dwarf huckleberry | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Firewheel Indian Blanket | |
| Gelsemium sempervirens | Carolina jessamine Yellow jessamine Evening trumpetflower Poor man's rope | |
| Gleditsia triacanthos | Honey locust Common Honey-locust Honey-locust Thornless common honey-locust Honey shucks | |
| Gordonia lasianthus | Gordonia Loblolly bay | |
| Halesia diptera | Two-wing silverbell Silver bell Two-winged silverbell Snowdrop tree American snowdrop tree | |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch hazel American witch hazel | |
| Helianthus angustifolius | Swamp sunflower | |
| Heliopsis helianthoides | Smooth oxeye Oxeye sunflower False sunflower | |
| Hibiscus coccineus | Scarlet rose-mallow Scarlet rosemallow Texas star hibiscus Wild red mallow | |
| Hibiscus grandiflorus | Swamp rosemallow Swamp rose-mallow Pink swamp hibiscus Large-flowered hibiscus | |
| Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimsoneyed rosemallow Crimson-eyed rose-mallow Marshmallow hibiscus | |
| Hydrolea corymbosa | Skyflower Tall Hydrolea | |
| Hypericum hypericoides | St. Andrew's Cross | |
| Hydrangea quercifolia | Oakleaf hydrangea Oak-leaf hydrangea | |
| Ilex amelanchier | Sarvis holly Swamp holly | |
| Ilex decidua | Possumhaw Possumhaw Holly Deciduous Holly Winterberry Deciduous yaupon | |
| Illicium floridanum | Florida anisetree Florida anise Anise tree Stinkbush | |
| Ilex glabra | Inkberry Gallberry | |
| Ilex myrtifolia | Myrtle dahoon Myrtle leaf holly Myrtle holly | |
| Illicium parviflorum | Yellow anisetree Small anisetree Star anise | |
| Ilex verticillata | Common winterberry Michigan holly Black alder | |
| Ilex vomitoria | Yaupon Yaupon holly Cassina | |
| Ipomoea pes-caprae | Railroad vine Goat-foot morning glory Bayhops Beach morning glory | |
| Ipomopsis rubra | Standing cypress Texas plume Red Texas star Red gilia | |
| Iris hexagona | Dixie iris | |
| Iris virginica | Virginia iris Great Blue Flag | |
| Itea virginica | Virginia sweetspire Tassel-white | |
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