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Florida Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in 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 Association of Florida 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 |
| Clethra alnifolia | Coastal Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepper Alderleaf Pepperbush Alderleaf Clethra Clethra Summer Sweet | |
| Clematis baldwinii | Pine Hyacinth | |
| Clematis crispa | Swamp Leatherflower Curly Clematis Blue-jasmine Curlflower Curly Virgin's Bower Marsh Clematis | |
| Cliftonia monophylla | Buckwheat Tree Buckwheat Bush | |
| Clusia rosea | Scotch Attorney | |
| Clematis virginiana | Devil's Darning Needles Virgin's Bower Old Man's Beard | |
| Cornus alternifolia | Alternateleaf Dogwood Alternate-leaf Dogwood Pagoda Dogwood | |
| Cornus amomum | Silky Dogwood Red Willow Silky Cornel | |
| Coccothrinax argentata | Florida Silver Palm | |
| Cocculus carolinus | Carolina Snailseed Carolina Coralbead Carolina Moonseed Red Berried Moonseed Carolina Red Berried Moonseed | |
| Conradina canescens | False Rosemary Wild Rosemary Conradina | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue Mistflower Wild Ageratum Blue Boneset | |
| Coccoloba diversifolia | Tie-tongue Pigeon Plum | |
| Conocarpus erectus | Button Mangrove Buttonwood | |
| Cornus florida | Flowering Dogwood Virginia Dogwood Florida Dogwood White Cornel Arrowwood American Boxwood False Box St. Peter's Crown Corona De San Pedro | |
| Cornus foemina | Stiff Dogwood Swamp Dogwood | |
| Coreopsis gladiata | Coastal Plain Tickseed Coastal Tickseed | |
| Coreopsis grandiflora | Largeflower Tickseed Large-flower Tickseed Common Coreopsis | |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
| Coreopsis leavenworthii | Leavenworth's Tickseed Common Tickseed | |
| Coreopsis nudata | Georgia Tickseed Swamp Coreopsis | |
| Coccoloba uvifera | Seagrape Seaside-grape Sea Grape | |
| Crataegus aestivalis | Mayhaw May Hawthorn | |
| Crinum americanum | American Crinum Lily Seven Sisters Swamp Lily Southern Swamp Lily String Lily Crinum Lily | |
| Crataegus crus-galli | Cockspur Hawthorn Cockspur Thorn Newcastle Hawthorn Newcastle Thorn Hog Apple | |
| Crataegus flava | Yellowleaf Hawthorn Yellow-leaf Hawthorn Summer Hawthorn | |
| Crataegus phaenopyrum | Washington Hawthorn Washington-thorn | |
| Crataegus spathulata | Littlehip Hawthorn Pasture Hawthorn Smallfruit Hawthorn | |
| Crataegus viridis | Green Hawthorn Southern Hawthorn | |
| Cyperus odoratus | Fragrant Flatsedge Fragrant Sedge | |
| Cyrilla racemiflora | Titi Swamp Titi Black Titi White Titi Red Titi Leatherwood Swamp Cyrilla American Cyrilla Burnwood Bark Palo Colorado | |
| Decumaria barbara | Decumaria Climbing Hydrangea Woodvamp | |
| Dichanthelium commutatum | Variable Panicgrass | |
| Dirca palustris | Eastern Leatherwood Western Leatherwood Ropebark Wicopy | |
| Dicliptera sexangularis | Sixangle Foldwing | |
| 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 | |
| Dryopteris ludoviciana | Southern Woodfern Florida Shieldfern | |
| Dyschoriste oblongifolia | Oblongleaf Snakeherb Twin Flower | |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower | |
| Eleocharis cellulosa | Gulf Coast Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis interstincta | Knotted Spikerush | |
| Equisetum hyemale | Scouring-rush Horsetail Horsetail Scouring Rush Canuela | |
| Eryngium aquaticum | Rattlesnakemaster Rattlesnake-master Snakeroot | |
| Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee Bean Red Cardinal | |
| Ernodea littoralis | Coughbush Golden Creeper | |
| Erigeron quercifolius | Oakleaf Fleabane Southern Fleabane Oak-leaf Fleabane | |
| Eragrostis spectabilis | Purple Lovegrass Purple Love Grass Purple Plains Lovegrass Tumblegrass Petticoat Climber | |
| Eryngium yuccifolium | Rattlesnake Master Button Eryngo Button Snakeroot Beargrass Bear's Grass | |
| Euonymus americanus | American Strawberry Bush Strawberry Bush Brook Euonymus Hearts-a-burstin Bursting Heart Wahoo | |
| Eugenia axillaris | White Stopper | |
| Euthamia caroliniana | Slender Goldentop Slender Fragrant Goldenrod | |
| Eustoma exaltatum | Catchfly Prairie Gentian Bluebell Gentian Western Blue Gentian Blue Marsh Lily Small Bluebell Catchfly Gentian Seaside Gentian | |
| Eupatorium perfoliatum | Common Boneset | |
| Fagus grandifolia | American Beech White Beech Red Beech Ridge Beech Beechnut Tree | |
| Ficus aurea | Florida Strangler Fig Strangler Fig | |
| Forestiera acuminata | Eastern Swamp Privet Swamp Privet Texas Privet | |
| Fothergilla gardenii | Dwarf Witchalder Dwarf Witch-alder Dwarf Fothergilla | |
| Forestiera segregata | Florida Swampprivet Florida Privet | |
| Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash | |
| Fraxinus caroliniana | Carolina Ash Pop Ash Water Ash Swamp Ash Florida Ash Poppy Ash | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash | |
| Gaylussacia dumosa | Dwarf Huckleberry | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo | |
| Gelsemium rankinii | Swamp Jessamine Rankin's Trumpetflower Rankin's Jessamine Swamp Yellow Jasmine | |
| Gelsemium sempervirens | Carolina Jessamine Yellow Jessamine Evening Trumpetflower Poor Man's Rope | |
| Gleditsia triacanthos | Honey Locust Common Honey Locust Thorny Common Honey Locust Honey Shucks Locust Sweet Locust Thorny Locust Honey Shucks Sweet Bean Tree | |
| Gossypium hirsutum | Upland Cotton | |
| Gordonia lasianthus | Gordonia Loblolly Bay | |
| Halesia carolina | Carolina Silverbell | |
| Halesia diptera | Two-wing Silverbell Two-winged Silverbell Silverbell American Snowdrop Tree Snowdrop Tree Snowbell Cowlicks | |
| Hamelia patens | Scarletbush Firebush Hummingbird Bush Scarlet Bush Redhead | |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch-hazel American Witch-hazel Common Witch-hazel Winterbloom Snapping Hazelnut Striped Alder Spotted Alder Tobacco-wood Water-witch | |
| Helenium amarum | Yellow Sneezeweed Bitterweed Yellow Bitterweed Yellowdicks Slender-leaved Sneezeweed Fine-leaved Sneezweed Yellow Dog-fennel | |
| Helianthus angustifolius | Swamp Sunflower Narrowleaf Sunflower Narrow-leaved Sunflower | |
| Heliotropium angiospermum | Scorpion's-tail Scorpion-tail | |
| Heliotropium curassavicum | Salt Heliotrope Seaside Heliotrope Quail Plant Cola De Mico Cola De Gama | |
| Helianthus debilis | Cucumberleaf Sunflower Cucumber-leaf Sunflower Beach Sunflower | |
| Helenium flexuosum | Purplehead Sneezeweed Purple-head Sneezeweed | |
| Heliopsis helianthoides | Smooth Oxeye Oxeye Sunflower False Sunflower | |
| Helianthus strumosus | Paleleaf Woodland Sunflower Paleleaf Sunflower Woodland Sunflower | |
| Hibiscus aculeatus | Comfortroot Big Thicket Hibiscus Pineland Hibiscus | |
| Hibiscus coccineus | Scarlet Rosemallow Crimson Rosemallow Wild Red Mallow Texas Star Hibiscus | |
| Hibiscus grandiflorus | Swamp Rose-mallow Pink Swamp Hibiscus Large-flowered Hibiscus | |
| Hibiscus laevis | Halberdleaf Rosemallow Halberdleaf Hibiscus Scarlet Rose Mallow Halberd-leaved Hibiscus Halberd-leaved Rose-mallow | |
| Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimson-eyed Rose-mallow Marshmallow Hibiscus | |
| Hypericum cistifolium | Roundpod St. John's-wort | |
| Hydrolea corymbosa | Skyflower Tall Hydrolea | |
| Hypericum gentianoides | Orangegrass Pineweed | |
| Hypericum hypericoides | St. Andrew's-cross | |
| Hymenocallis latifolia | Perfumed Spiderlily Perfumed Spider-lily | |
| Hymenocallis palmeri | Alligator Lily | |
| Hydrangea quercifolia | Oakleaf Hydrangea Oak-leaf Hydrangea | |
| Hypericum tetrapetalum | Fourpetal St. John's-wort | |
| Hydrocotyle umbellata | Manyflower Marsh-pennywort Many-flowered Marsh-pennywort Marsh Pennywort Water Pennywort Money Plant | |
| Ilex amelanchier | Sarvis Holly Swamp Holly | |
| Ilex coriacea | Baygall Bush Large Gallberry Gallberry Tall Inkberry Holly Inkberry Holly Shining Inkberry Inkberry | |
| Ilex decidua | Possumhaw Possumhaw Holly Deciduous Holly Meadow Holly Prairie Holly Swamp Holly Welk Holly Deciduous Yaupon Bearberry Winterberry | |
| Illicium floridanum | Florida Anisetree Florida Anise Anise Tree Stinkbush | |
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