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Florida - South Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in South 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
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| Acer rubrum | Red maple Scarlet maple | |
| Ambrosia hispida | Coastal ragweed Beach Ragweed Bay Geranium | |
| Annona glabra | Pond apple | |
| Ardisia escallonoides | Island marlberry Marbleberry Marlberry | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| Avicennia germinans | Black mangrove | |
| Baccharis halimifolia | Groundseltree Sea-myrtle Consumptionweed Eastern baccharis Groundsel Groundsel bush Salt marsh-elder Salt bush Florida groundsel bush | |
| Batis maritima | Seaside saltwort Turtleweed | |
| Bejaria racemosa | Tarflower Flyweed Flycatcher | |
| Borrichia frutescens | Bushy seaside tansy Bushy seaside-tansy Ox-eye daisy Sea daisy Sea ox-eye | |
| Bursera simaruba | Gumbo limbo Gumbo-limbo | |
| Callicarpa americana | American beautyberry French mulberry | |
| Carya aquatica | Water hickory Bitter pecan | |
| Capparis cynophallophora | Jamaica Caper Tree Jamaican caper | |
| Canna flaccida | Bandanna of the Everglades Golden canna | |
| Celtis laevigata | Sugar hackberry Hackberry Sugarberry Texas sugarberry Palo blanco | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common buttonbush Buttonbush Button willow | |
| Chiococca alba | West Indian milkberry David’s milkberry Cahinca Snowberry | |
| Chrysobalanus icaco | Icaco coco plum Icaco coco-plum | |
| Chrysophyllum oliviforme | Satinleaf | |
| Cirsium horridulum | Yellow thistle | |
| Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense | Jamaica swamp sawgrass Jamaican Saw-grass Saw-grass | |
| Clusia rosea | Scotch attorney | |
| Coccothrinax argentata | Florida silver palm | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue mistflower | |
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