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Amsonia tabernaemontana
Wildflower garden. Also useful as a cut flower.
  • Produces aromatic flowers year-round
  • Relatively uncommon in South Florida
  • Unusually shaped, asymmetrical tree
  • Bright red fruits
  • Thick branching into attractive silouttes
  • Elegant
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Phlebodium aureum
This is a native that makes Florida look tropical. Herbarium specimens from Leon County say that the fern was likely brought in.  Otherwise, the northern locations appear to be coastal, and likely that should be considered when considering this species.  The entire peninsula appears to be appropriate habitat. Typically epiphytic (on trees). Interesting grown in the boots (old leaf bases) of cabbage palm. Can also be grown in soil or on rock as part of a shade or fern garden.
  • Highly nutritious fruit
  • Wonderfully fragrant flowers
  • Wonderfully fragrant
  • Colorful older leaves
  • Attractive mottled bark
  • Beautiful rounded canopy
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Teucrium canadense
Moist wildflower garden. Makes a good mass planting on the edge of a pond or ditch.
  • Salt tolerant
  • Does best in warmer areas of South Florida
  • Requires ample space and light
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Bacopa caroliniana
Lemon bacopa is distinguished by blue flowers, a hairy upper stem, and by the lemony scent of its crushed foliage. Spreading ground cover around the edges of retention ponds and aquatic gardens. Groundcover in restoration areas. Also used in aquariums.
  • Thrives only briefly, about 1 year
  • Showy red berries
  • Highly nutritious fruit
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Hydrangea barbara
It's a vine, but can be used as a groundcover or to scramble over rocky outcroppings.
  • Beautiful rounded canopy
  • Intoxicating fragrance
  • Attractive mottled bark
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Hibiscus poeppigii
Predominantly grown as a curiosity in the Florida Keys. Wildflower gardens. Hammock restoration.
  • Attractive shade tree
  • Decorative diamond-shaped trunk pattern
  • Beautiful rounded dense canopy
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Phytolacca americana
Interesting red stems. Makes a good specimen plant in an informal garden. Weedy in appearance if in large numbers and stems tend to split when branches get too heavy or in high winds. Interesting red stems. Makes a good specimen plant in an informal garden. Weedy in appearance if in large numbers.
  • Decorative diamond-shaped trunk pattern
  • Elegant
  • Beautiful pinwheel flowers, often multicolored
  • Attractive dark green leaves
  • Available single or multi-stalked
  • Attracts butterflies and bees
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Vigna lutea
Range includes areas usually relatively near the coast in Southeastern United States west to Texas, north to North Carolina, and south to the Monroe County Keys; and Mexico,  the Neotropics and Bermuda. Rare in the northern parts of its range and in the Florida keys. Naturalistic areas especially near the coast.
  • Showy creamy white flowers
  • Unique purple-brown crownshaft
  • Stunning long emerald crownshaft