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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
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| Quercus stellata | Post Oak Iron Oak Cross Oak | |
| Quercus virginiana | Coastal Live Oak Southern Live Oak Virginia Live Oak Live Oak Encino | |
| Ratibida pinnata | Grayhead Coneflower Gray-headed Coneflower Grayhead Mexican Hat Gray-headed Mexican Hat Pinnate Prairie Coneflower Yellow Coneflower | |
| Rhexia alifanus | Savanna Meadow Beauty | |
| Rhododendron alabamense | Alabama Azalea | |
| Rhododendron austrinum | Orange Azalea Florida Azalea Yellow Azalea | |
| Rhododendron canescens | Mountain Azalea Wild Azalea Honeysuckle Azalea Piedmont Azalea Sweet Azalea Hoary Azalea Southern Pinxterflower | |
| Rhus copallinum | Winged Sumac Shining Sumac Flameleaf Sumac Mountain Sumac Dwarf Sumac Wing-rib Sumac Black Sumac Upland Sumac | |
| Rhynchospora colorata | Whitetop Sedge White-topped Sedge Starrush Whitetop Star Sedge Star Rush | |
| Rhus glabra | Smooth Sumac | |
| Rhapidophyllum hystrix | Needle Palm Blue Palmetto | |
| Rhexia mariana | Maryland Meadow Beauty Pale Meadow Beauty | |
| Rhizophora mangle | Red Mangrove | |
| Rhexia petiolata | Fringed Meadow Beauty | |
| Rhexia virginica | Handsome-harry Virginia Meadow Beauty Meadow-beauty | |
| Rhododendron viscosum | Swamp Azalea Clammy Azalea Cory Azalea Hammock Sweet Azalea | |
| Rivina humilis | Pigeonberry Rouge Plant Baby-peppers Bloodberry | |
| Rosa palustris | Swamp Rose | |
| Roystonea regia | Florida Royal Palm | |
| Ruellia caroliniensis | Carolina Wild Petunia | |
| Rudbeckia fulgida | Orange Coneflower Orange Rudbeckia Perennial Black-eyed Susan Goldstrum | |
| Rudbeckia hirta | Black-eyed Susan Common Black-eyed Susan Brown-eyed Susan Blackeyed Susan | |
| Ruellia noctiflora | Nightflowering Wild Petunia | |
| Rudbeckia triloba | Browneyed Susan Brown-eyed-susan Thin-leaved Coneflower Three-lobed Rudbeckia | |
| Sassafras albidum | Sassafras White Sassafras Ague Tree Cinnamon Wood Mitten Tree Saloop Smelling Stick | |
| Salvia azurea | Pitcher Sage Big Blue Sage Azure Sage Giant Blue Sage Blue Sage | |
| Salix caroliniana | Coastal Plain Willow | |
| Saururus cernuus | Lizard's Tail Lizard Tail Breastweed Water Dragon | |
| Salvia coccinea | Scarlet Sage Tropical Sage Blood Sage Red Sage Indian Fire | |
| Saccharum giganteum | Sugarcane Plumegrass Giant Plumegrass | |
| Sagittaria graminea var. graminea | Grassy Arrowhead | |
| Salix humilis | Prairie Willow | |
| Sagittaria latifolia | Broadleaf Arrowhead Arrowhead Duckroot Duck-potato Wapato | |
| Sarracenia leucophylla | Crimson Pitcherplant Crimson Pitcher-plant Crimson Pitcher Plant | |
| Salvia lyrata | Lyreleaf Sage Cancer Weed | |
| Sabal minor | Dwarf Palmetto Bush Palmetto Palmetto | |
| Sarracenia minor | Hooded Pitcherplant Hooded Pitcher-plant Hooded Pitcher Plant | |
| Salix nigra | Black Willow Gulf Black Willow Swamp Willow Sauz | |
| Sabal palmetto | Cabbage Palmetto Cabbage Palm | |
| Sapindus saponaria | Wingleaf Soapberry Soapberry Wild China Tree | |
| Scutellaria integrifolia | Helmet-flower Rough Skullcap Common Large Skullcap Tall Skullcap | |
| Scutellaria ovata | Heartleaf Skullcap Heart-leaf Skullcap | |
| Scaevola plumieri | Gullfeed Inkberry | |
| Schizachyrium scoparium var. scoparium | Little Bluestem | |
| Sesuvium portulacastrum | Shoreline Seapurslane Sea Purslane Cenicilla | |
| Serenoa repens | Saw Palmetto | |
| Sisyrinchium albidum | White Blue-eyed Grass | |
| Sisyrinchium angustifolium | Narrowleaf Blue-eyed Grass Narrow-leaf Blue-eyed-grass Bermuda Blue-eyed Grass Blue-eyed Grass | |
| Silphium asteriscus | Starry Rosinweed | |
| Sideroxylon celastrinum | Saffron Plum Coma Saffron Plum La Coma Coma Milk Buckthorn Tropical Buckthorn Downward Plum Antswood | |
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