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 Soft Maple | |
Ambrosia hispida | Coastal Ragweed Beach Ragweed Bay Geranium | |
Annona glabra | Pond Apple | |
Ardisia escallonioides | Island Marlberry Marbleberry Marlberry | |
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
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 | Turtleweed Seaside Saltwort | |
Bejaria racemosa | Tarflower Flyweed Flycatcher | |
Borrichia frutescens | 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 Water Hickory Bitter Hickory Swamp Hickory Water Pignut Hickory Water Pignut Bitter Pecan | |
Capparis cynophallophora | Jamaican Caper Jamaica Caper Tree | |
Canna flaccida | Bandanna Of The Everglades Golden Canna | |
Celtis laevigata | Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Sugarberry Southern Hackberry Lowland Hackberry Hackberry Palo Blanco | |
Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
Chiococca alba | Snowberry West Indian Milkberry David's Milkberry Cahinca West Indian Snowberry Milkberry | |
Chrysobalanus icaco | Icaco Coco Plum Icaco Coco-plum | |
Chrysophyllum oliviforme | Satinleaf | |
Cirsium horridulum | Bristle Thistle Yellow Thistle Horrid Thistle Purple Thistle Spiny Thistle Bull 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 Wild Ageratum Blue Boneset | |
Coccoloba diversifolia | Tie-tongue Pigeon Plum | |
Conocarpus erectus | Button Mangrove Buttonwood | |
Cornus foemina | Stiff Dogwood Swamp Dogwood | |
Coreopsis leavenworthii | Leavenworth's Tickseed Common Tickseed | |
Coccoloba uvifera | Seagrape Seaside-grape Sea Grape | |
Crinum americanum | American Crinum Lily Seven Sisters Swamp Lily Southern Swamp Lily String Lily Crinum Lily | |
Distichlis spicata | Saltgrass Coastal Salt Grass Inland Salt-grass | |
Diospyros virginiana | Common Persimmon Eastern Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
Dodonaea viscosa | Florida Hopbush Hopseed Bush Switch Sorrel Varnish Leaf Hopbush Chapoliztle Casol | |
Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee Bean Red Cardinal | |
Ernodea littoralis | Coughbush Golden Creeper | |
Eugenia axillaris | White Stopper | |
Ficus aurea | Florida Strangler Fig Strangler Fig | |
Forestiera segregata | Florida Swampprivet Florida Privet | |
Fraxinus caroliniana | Carolina Ash Pop Ash Water Ash Swamp Ash Florida Ash Poppy Ash | |
Gaillardia pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo | |
Hamelia patens | Scarletbush Firebush Hummingbird Bush Scarlet Bush Redhead | |
Hibiscus coccineus | Scarlet Rosemallow Crimson Rosemallow Wild Red Mallow Texas Star Hibiscus | |
Hydrolea corymbosa | Skyflower Tall Hydrolea | |
Hymenocallis latifolia | Perfumed Spiderlily Perfumed Spider-lily | |
Hymenocallis palmeri | Alligator Lily | |
Ilex glabra | Inkberry Gallberry | |
Ipomoea pes-caprae | Railroad Vine Goat-foot Morning Glory Bayhops Beach Morning Glory | |
Iris hexagona | Dixie Iris | |
Itea virginica | Virginia Sweetspire Tassel-white Virginia Willow | |
Iva frutescens | Jesuit's Bark High-tide Bush High-water Shrub Marsh Elder Bigleaf Marsh Elder | |
Jacquinia keyensis | Joewood | |
Juncus effusus | Common Rush Soft Rush | |
Juncus roemerianus | Needlegrass Rush Black Needlerush | |
Lachnanthes caroliana | Carolina Redroot Paint Root | |
Lantana involucrata | Buttonsage Button-sage | |
Laguncularia racemosa | White Mangrove | |
Lilium catesbaei | Pine Lily Southern Red Lily Catesby's Lily | |
Ludwigia repens | Creeping Primrose-willow Floating Primrose-willow Water Primrose | |
Lycium carolinianum | Carolina Wolfberry Carolina Desert-thorn Creeping Wolfberry Christmas Berry | |
Lyonia fruticosa | Coastal Plain Staggerbush Poor-grub Rusty Lyonia | |
Lyonia lucida | Shining Fetterbush Fetterbush Lyonia Shinyleaf Fetterbush Staggerbush | |
Magnolia virginiana | Sweetbay Sweetbay Magnolia Southern Sweetbay Swampbay Swamp Magnolia Sweet Magnolia Small Magnolia Laurel Magnolia White Bay White Laurel Swamp Laurel Beaver Tree | |
Morella cerifera | Wax Myrtle Southern Wax Myrtle Southern Bayberry Eastern Bayberry Bayberry Candleberry Tallow Shrub | |
Morus rubra | Red Mulberry Moral | |
Nephrolepis exaltata | Boston Swordfern | |
Nuphar lutea | Yellow Pond Lily Yellow Cow Lily Cow Lily Spatter Dock Wakas | |
Nymphaea mexicana | Yellow Waterlily Yellow Water-lily Banana Lily Banana Waterlily Sun Lotus | |
Nymphaea odorata | American White Water-lily Fragrant White Water-lily Fragrant Water-lily White Water-lily Sweet-scented White Water-lily Sweet-scented Water-lily Beaver Root | |
Osmunda cinnamomea | Cinnamon Fern | |
Osmunda regalis | Royal Fern | |
Panicum amarum | Bitter Panicgrass Beachgrass Coastal Panic Grass | |
Paspalum distichum | Knotgrass | |
Parthenocissus quinquefolia | Virginia Creeper | |
Persea palustris | Swamp Bay Swampbay | |
Pinus clausa | Sand Pine | |
Pityopsis graminifolia | Narrowleaf Silkgrass Golden Aster | |
Piscidia piscipula | Florida Fishpoison Tree Florida Fish-poison Tree | |
Pontederia cordata | Pickerelweed Pickerel Rush | |
Polygonum hydropiperoides | Swamp Smartweed | |
Portulaca pilosa | Kiss Me Quick Chisme | |
Psychotria nervosa | Seminole Balsamo Wild Coffee | |
Quercus chapmanii | Chapman Oak Chapman's Oak | |
Quercus laevis | Turkey Oak | |
Quercus laurifolia | Laurel Oak Swamp Laurel Oak Darlington Oak Diamond-leaf Oak Laurel-leaf Oak Water Oak Obtusa Oak | |
Quercus myrtifolia | Myrtle Oak | |
Quercus virginiana | Coastal Live Oak Southern Live Oak Virginia Live Oak Live Oak Encino | |
Rhus copallinum | Winged Sumac Shining Sumac Flameleaf Sumac Mountain Sumac Dwarf Sumac Wing-rib Sumac Black Sumac Upland Sumac | |
Rhizophora mangle | Red Mangrove | |
Ruellia caroliniensis | Carolina Wild Petunia | |
Rudbeckia hirta | Black-eyed Susan Common Black-eyed Susan Brown-eyed Susan Blackeyed Susan | |
Salix caroliniana | Coastal Plain Willow | |
Saururus cernuus | Lizard's Tail Lizard Tail Breastweed Water Dragon | |
Sabal minor | Dwarf Palmetto Bush Palmetto Palmetto | |
Sabal palmetto | Cabbage Palmetto Cabbage Palm | |
Scaevola plumieri | Gullfeed Inkberry | |
Sesuvium portulacastrum | Shoreline Seapurslane Sea Purslane Cenicilla | |
Serenoa repens | Saw Palmetto | |
Simarouba glauca | Paradisetree | |
Solidago sempervirens | Seaside Goldenrod | |
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