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Florida - North Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in North 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 |
| Acer floridanum | Southern Sugar Maple Florida Maple Caddo Maple Rock Maple | |
| Acer negundo | Box Elder Box Elder Maple Ash-leaved Maple Ashleaf Maple Red River Maple Fresno De Guajuco | |
| Acer rubrum | Red Maple Scarlet Maple Soft Maple | |
| Acer saccharinum | Silver Maple Soft Maple White Maple | |
| Adiantum capillus-veneris | Southern Maidenhair Fern Common Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern Venus Hair Fern | |
| Aesculus pavia | Red Buckeye Scarlet Buckeye Firecracker Plant | |
| Agarista populifolia | Florida Hobblebush Tall Fetterbush Florida Leucothoe Agarista | |
| Alnus serrulata | Smooth Alder Hazel Alder Brookside Alder Tag Alder Common Alder Black Alder | |
| Amsonia ciliata | Fringed Bluestar Bluestar Texas Bluestar | |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo | |
| Amsonia tabernaemontana | Eastern Bluestar Blue Dogbane Willow Amsonia Woodland Bluestar | |
| Andropogon ternarius | Splitbeard Bluestem Split Bluestem | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
| Arisaema dracontium | Green Dragon Dragonroot Greendragon | |
| Aralia spinosa | Devil's Walking Stick Hercules Club Angelica Tree Pigeon Tree Shotbush Prickly Elder Prickly Ash | |
| Arisaema triphyllum | Jack In The Pulpit Indian Jack In The Pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit | |
| Asimina parviflora | Smallflower Pawpaw Small-flower Pawpaw Dwarf Pawpaw | |
| Asimina triloba | Pawpaw Common Pawpaw Custard Apple Indian Banana Wild Banana | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
| Athyrium filix-femina | Common Lady Fern Subarctic Lady Fern Lady Fern Ladyfern | |
| Baccharis halimifolia | Groundseltree Sea-myrtle Consumptionweed Eastern Baccharis Groundsel Groundsel Bush Salt Marsh-elder Salt Bush Florida Groundsel Bush | |
| Batis maritima | Turtleweed Seaside Saltwort | |
| Bacopa monnieri | Herb-of-grace Water Hyssop Coastal Water-hyssop | |
| Betula nigra | River Birch Red Birch Black Birch Water Birch | |
| Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
| Borrichia frutescens | Bushy Seaside Tansy Ox-eye Daisy Sea Daisy Sea Ox-eye | |
| Callicarpa americana | American Beautyberry French Mulberry | |
| Carya aquatica | Water Hickory Bitter Water Hickory Bitter Hickory Swamp Hickory Water Pignut Hickory Water Pignut Bitter Pecan | |
| Catalpa bignonioides | Southern Catalpa Cigar Tree Indian Bean | |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam Blue Beech Water Beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
| Canna flaccida | Bandanna Of The Everglades Golden Canna | |
| Carya glabra | Pignut Hickory Sweet Pignut Hickory Coast Pignut Hickory Pignut Sweet Pignut Smoothbark Hickory Broom Hickory Red Hickory Swamp Hickory Switch Hickory Switchbud Hickory | |
| Callirhoe papaver | Woodland Poppymallow Woodland Poppy-mallow Woodland Poppy Mallow | |
| Castanea pumila | Allegheny Chinquapin Allegheny Chinkapin Chinquapin Chinkapin | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
| 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 | |
| Chamaecyparis thyoides | Atlantic White Cedar | |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White Fringetree Fringe Tree Snowflower Tree Flowering Ash Old Man's Beard Grandfather Graybeard Grancy Graybeard | |
| Clethra alnifolia | Coastal Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepper Alderleaf Pepperbush Alderleaf Clethra Clethra Summer Sweet | |
| Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense | Jamaica Swamp Sawgrass Jamaican Saw-grass Saw-grass | |
| Cliftonia monophylla | Buckwheat Tree Buckwheat Bush | |
| Conradina canescens | False Rosemary Wild Rosemary Conradina | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue Mistflower Wild Ageratum Blue Boneset | |
| 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 lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
| Coreopsis leavenworthii | Leavenworth's Tickseed Common Tickseed | |
| 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 marshallii | Parsley Hawthorn Parsleyleaf Hawthorn | |
| Crataegus spathulata | Littlehip Hawthorn Pasture Hawthorn Smallfruit 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 | |
| Distichlis spicata | Saltgrass Coastal Salt Grass Inland Salt-grass | |
| Diospyros virginiana | Common Persimmon Eastern Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
| Dryopteris ludoviciana | Southern Woodfern Florida Shieldfern | |
| Dyschoriste oblongifolia | Oblongleaf Snakeherb Twin Flower | |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower | |
| Equisetum hyemale | Scouring-rush Horsetail Horsetail Scouring Rush Canuela | |
| Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee Bean Red Cardinal | |
| Euonymus americanus | American Strawberry Bush Strawberry Bush Brook Euonymus Hearts-a-burstin Bursting Heart Wahoo | |
| Fagus grandifolia | American Beech White Beech Red Beech Ridge Beech Beechnut Tree | |
| Forestiera acuminata | Eastern Swamp Privet Swamp Privet Texas Privet | |
| Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash | |
| Frangula caroliniana | Carolina Buckthorn Carolina False Buckthorn Yellow Buckthorn Indian Cherry Yellowwood | |
| 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 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 | |
| Gordonia lasianthus | Gordonia Loblolly Bay | |
| Halesia diptera | Two-wing Silverbell Two-winged Silverbell Silverbell American Snowdrop Tree Snowdrop Tree Snowbell Cowlicks | |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch-hazel American Witch-hazel Common Witch-hazel Winterbloom Snapping Hazelnut Striped Alder Spotted Alder Tobacco-wood Water-witch | |
| Helianthus angustifolius | Swamp Sunflower Narrowleaf Sunflower Narrow-leaved Sunflower | |
| Heliopsis helianthoides | Smooth Oxeye Oxeye Sunflower False Sunflower | |
| Hibiscus coccineus | Scarlet Rosemallow Crimson Rosemallow Wild Red Mallow Texas Star Hibiscus | |
| Hibiscus grandiflorus | Swamp Rose-mallow Pink Swamp Hibiscus Large-flowered Hibiscus | |
| Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimson-eyed Rose-mallow Marshmallow Hibiscus | |
| Hydrolea corymbosa | Skyflower Tall Hydrolea | |
| Hypericum hypericoides | St. Andrew's-cross | |
| Hydrangea quercifolia | Oakleaf Hydrangea Oak-leaf Hydrangea | |
| Ilex amelanchier | Sarvis Holly Swamp Holly | |
| 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 | |
| Ilex glabra | Inkberry Gallberry | |
| Ilex myrtifolia | Myrtle Dahoon Myrtle Leaf Holly Myrtle Holly | |
| Illicium parviflorum | Yellow Anisetree Small Anisetree Star Anise | |
| Ilex verticillata | Common Winterberry Winterberry Michigan Holly Black Alder | |
| Ilex vomitoria | Yaupon Yaupon Holly Cassina | |
| Ipomoea pes-caprae | Railroad Vine Goat-foot Morning Glory Bayhops Beach Morning Glory | |
| Ipomopsis rubra | Standing Cypress Texas Plume Red Texas Star Red Gilia | |
| Iris hexagona | Dixie Iris | |
| Iris virginica | Virginia Iris Great Blue Flag Southern Blue Flag | |
| Itea virginica | Virginia Sweetspire Tassel-white Virginia Willow | |
| Iva frutescens | Jesuit's Bark High-tide Bush High-water Shrub Marsh Elder Bigleaf Marsh Elder | |
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