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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 |
| 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 | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
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