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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
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| 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 | |
| Coccoloba diversifolia | Pigeon-plum Tietongue | |
| Conocarpus erectus | Button mangrove Buttonwood | |
| Cornus foemina | Stiff dogwood Swamp dogwood | |
| Coreopsis leavenworthii | Common Tickseed Leavenworth's tickseed | |
| Coccoloba uvifera | Sea grape Seagrape Seaside-grape | |
| Crinum americanum | Crinum lily Seven sisters Swamp lily Southern swamp lily String lily | |
| Distichlis spicata | Saltgrass Coastal salt grass Inland salt-grass | |
| Diospyros virginiana | Common persimmon Eastern persimmon | |
| 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 Privet Florida swampprivet | |
| Fraxinus caroliniana | Carolina ash Pop Ash | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Firewheel Indian Blanket | |
| Hamelia patens | Scarletbush Firebush | |
| Hibiscus coccineus | Scarlet rose-mallow Scarlet rosemallow Texas star hibiscus Wild red mallow | |
| Hydrolea corymbosa | Skyflower Tall Hydrolea | |
| Hymenocallis latifolia | Perfumed spider-lily Perfumed spiderlily | |
| Hymenocallis palmeri | Alligator-lily Alligatorlily | |
| 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 | |
| Iva frutescens | High-tide bush High-water shrub Jesuit's bark Marsh elder | |
| Jacquinia keyensis | Joewood | |
| Juncus effusus | Common rush Soft Rush | |
| Juncus roemerianus | Black needlerush Needlegrass rush | |
| 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 | Fetterbush lyonia Shinyleaf Fetterbush Staggerbush | |
| Magnolia virginiana | Sweetbay Sweetbay magnolia Swampbay Swamp magnolia Small magnolia | |
| Morella cerifera | Wax myrtle Southern bayberry Candleberry | |
| Morus rubra | Red mulberry Moral | |
| Nephrolepis exaltata | Boston swordfern | |
| Nuphar lutea | Yellow pond-lily Cow lily Spatter dock Yellow cow lily | |
| Nymphaea mexicana | Yellow waterlily Yellow Water-lily Banana lily Banana waterlily Sun lotus | |
| Nymphaea odorata | American white waterlily American white water-lily Fragrant white water lily White water lily Fragrant water lily White water lily | |
| Osmunda cinnamomea | Cinnamon fern | |
| Osmunda regalis | Royal fern | |
| Panicum amarum | Bitter panicgrass Bitter or coastal panic grass Beachgrass | |
| Paspalum distichum | Knotgrass | |
| Parthenocissus quinquefolia | Virginia creeper | |
| Persea palustris | Swamp bay | |
| Pinus clausa | Sand pine | |
| Pityopsis graminifolia | Narrowleaf silkgrass Golden aster | |
| Piscidia piscipula | Florida Fish-poison Tree Florida fishpoison tree | |
| Pontederia cordata | Pickerelweed Pickerel Weed | |
| Polygonum hydropiperoides | Swamp smartweed | |
| Portulaca pilosa | Chisme Kiss me quick | |
| Psychotria nervosa | Seminole balsamo Wild coffee | |
| Quercus chapmanii | Chapman oak | |
| Quercus laevis | Turkey oak | |
| Quercus laurifolia | Laurel oak Swamp laurel oak Darlington oak diamond-leaf oak laurel-leaf oak water oak obtuse oak | |
| Quercus myrtifolia | Myrtle oak | |
| Quercus virginiana | Coastal live oak Southern live oak Live oak | |
| Rhus copallinum | Winged sumac Shining sumac Flameleaf sumac Mountain sumac Dwarf sumac | |
| Rhizophora mangle | Red mangrove | |
| Ruellia caroliniensis | Carolina wild petunia | |
| Rudbeckia hirta | Black-eyed Susan Common black-eyed Susan Brown-eyed Susan | |
| Salix caroliniana | Coastal plain willow | |
| Saururus cernuus | Lizard's tail Lizard's-tail Breast weed | |
| Sabal minor | Dwarf palmetto Palmetto Bush 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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