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
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Acer rubrum | Red Maple Scarlet Maple Soft Maple | |
Ambrosia hispida | Coastal Ragweed Beach Ragweed Bay Geranium | |
Annona glabra | Pond Apple | |
Ardisia escallonioides | Island Marlberry Marbleberry Marlberry | |
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
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 | Turtleweed Seaside Saltwort | |
Bejaria racemosa | Tarflower Flyweed Flycatcher | |
Borrichia frutescens | 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 Water Hickory Bitter Hickory Swamp Hickory Water Pignut Hickory Water Pignut Bitter Pecan | |
Capparis cynophallophora | Jamaican Caper Jamaica Caper Tree | |
Canna flaccida | Bandanna Of The Everglades Golden Canna | |
Celtis laevigata | Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Sugarberry Southern Hackberry Lowland Hackberry Hackberry Palo Blanco | |
Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
Chiococca alba | Snowberry West Indian Milkberry David's Milkberry Cahinca West Indian Snowberry Milkberry | |
Chrysobalanus icaco | Icaco Coco Plum Icaco Coco-plum | |
Chrysophyllum oliviforme | Satinleaf | |
Cirsium horridulum | Bristle Thistle Yellow Thistle Horrid Thistle Purple Thistle Spiny Thistle Bull 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 Wild Ageratum Blue Boneset | |
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