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 |
Sideroxylon foetidissimum | False Mastic Mastic Tree | |
Simarouba glauca | Paradisetree | |
Silene regia | Royal Catchfly | |
Sida rhombifolia | Cuban Jute Axocatzin | |
Sideroxylon tenax | Tough Bully Tough Buckthorn | |
Smilax smallii | Lance-leaf Greenbriar Southern Smilax Jacksonvine Jacksonbriar | |
Solidago fistulosa | Pine Barren Goldenrod Hollow Goldenrod | |
Sorghastrum nutans | Indiangrass Yellow Indiangrass Indian Grass | |
Solidago sempervirens | Seaside Goldenrod | |
Spartina alterniflora | Saltmarsh Cordgrass Saltwater Cordgrass Salt Cordgrass Smooth Cordgrass | |
Spigelia marilandica | Woodland Pinkroot Pinkroot Indian Pink | |
Spiranthes odorata | Marsh Ladies'-tresses Fragrant Ladies'-tresses Marsh Lady's Tresses | |
Spartina patens | Saltmeadow Cordgrass Salt-meadow Cordgrass Marsh-hay Cordgrass | |
Spartina spartinae | Gulf Cordgrass | |
Spiranthes vernalis | Spring Ladies'-tresses Spring Lady's Tresses | |
Styrax americanus | American Snowbell American Snowbells American Silverbells Big-leaf Snowbell Storax | |
Stylosanthes biflora | Sidebeak Pencilflower | |
Styrax grandifolius | Bigleaf Snowbell Bigleaf Storax Coast Snowbell | |
Stokesia laevis | Stokes Aster | |
Stewartia malacodendron | Silky Camellia Virginia Stewartia Round-fruited Stewartia | |
Suriana maritima | Bay Cedar Bay-cedar | |
Swietenia mahagoni | West Indian Mahogany | |
Symphyotrichum dumosum | Rice Button Aster White Bushy Aster | |
Symphyotrichum dumosum var. dumosum | Rice Button Aster Bushy Aster | |
Symplocos tinctoria | Horse Sugar Common Sweetleaf Sweetleaf Yellowwood Wild Laurel | |
Taxodium ascendens | Pond Cypress | |
Taxodium distichum | Bald Cypress Baldcypress Common Bald Cypress Southern Bald Cypress Deciduous Cypress Southern Cypress Swamp Cypress Red Cypress White Cypress Yellow Cypress Gulf Cypress Tidewater Red Cypress | |
Taxus floridana | Florida Yew | |
Teucrium canadense | American Germander Canada Germander Canadian Germander Germander Hairy Germander Wood Sage | |
Thalia geniculata | Bent Alligator-flag Arrow Root | |
Thelypteris kunthii | Wood Fern River Fern Southern Shield Fern Kunth's Maiden Fern Normal Shield Fern | |
Thalictrum thalictroides | Rue Anemone Rue-anemone | |
Tilia americana | American Basswood American Linden Lime Tree Bee Tree | |
Torreya taxifolia | Florida Nutmeg Florida Torreya Stinking-cedar Torrey Tree Savin Gopher Wood Polecat Wood Stinking-yew | |
Tripsacum dactyloides | Eastern Gamagrass Fakahatchee Grass | |
Trichostema dichotomum | Forked Bluecurls Blue Curls | |
Tradescantia ohiensis | Ohio Spiderwort Bluejacket | |
Trifolium reflexum | Buffalo Clover | |
Triadenum virginicum | Virginia Marsh St. Johnswort | |
Typha latifolia | Broadleaf Cattail Common Cattail | |
Ulmus alata | Winged Elm Wahoo Elm Cork Elm Witch Elm | |
Ulmus americana | American Elm White Elm Soft Elm Water Elm Common Elm | |
Ulmus crassifolia | Cedar Elm Fall Elm Basket Elm Scrub Elm Lime Elm Texas Elm Southern Rock Elm Olmo | |
Ulmus rubra | Slippery Elm Red Elm Gray Elm Soft Elm | |
Uniola paniculata | Sea Oats Seaoats | |
Vallisneria americana | American Eelgrass Water Celery Eelgrass Tapegrass | |
Vaccinium arboreum | Farkleberry Tree Sparkleberry Sparkleberry Winter Huckleberry Huckleberry | |
Vaccinium corymbosum | Highbush Blueberry | |
Vaccinium darrowii | Darrow's Blueberry Evergreen Blueberry | |
Vaccinium elliottii | Elliott's Blueberry Mayberry | |
Vachellia farnesiana | Huisache Texas Huisache Sweet Acacia Perfume Acacia Mealy Acacia Mealy Wattle Cassie | |
Vaccinium myrsinites | Shiny Blueberry Evergreen Blueberry | |
Vaccinium stamineum | Deerberry | |
Vernonia gigantea | Giant Ironweed Tall Ironweed | |
Vernonia noveboracensis | New York Ironweed | |
Veratrum virginicum | Virginia Bunchflower | |
Viburnum dentatum | Southern Arrowwood | |
Viola lanceolata | Lance-leaf Violet Bog White Violet | |
Viburnum nudum | Possumhaw Viburnum Possumhaw | |
Viburnum obovatum | Small-leaf Arrowwood Walter's Viburnum | |
Vitis rotundifolia | Muscadine Scuppernong Grape | |
Viburnum rufidulum | Rusty Blackhaw Viburnum Rusty Blackhaw Southern Blackhaw Blackhaw Bluehaw Downy Viburnum Southern Nannyberry Rusty Nannyberry Nannyberry | |
Viola sororia | Missouri Violet Common Blue Violet Hooded Blue Violet Florida Violet Meadow Violet Confederate Violet Dooryard Violet Purple Violet Woolly Blue Violet Wood Violet Hooded Violet | |
Wisteria frutescens | American Wisteria Texas Wisteria Kentucky Wisteria | |
Woodwardia areolata | Netted Chainfern Chain Fern Netted Chain Fern | |
Woodwardia virginica | Virginia Chainfern Virginia Chain Fern | |
Ximenia americana | Tallow Wood Tallowwood | |
Yucca aloifolia | Spanish Dagger Spanish Bayonet Aloe Yucca | |
Yucca filamentosa | Adam's Needle | |
Zanthoxylum clava-herculis | Hercules Club Pepperbark Toothache Tree Tickle Tongue Prickly Ash | |
Zanthoxylum fagara | Lime Prickly Ash Colima | |
Zamia pumila | Coontie Florida Arrowroot | |
Zizania aquatica | Annual Wildrice Wild Rice | |
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