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Giant Whitetop

Rhynchospora latifolia

This is a sedge. Most Rhynchospora species are wind pollinated. The white bracts of this species attract insects. Wetland garden or informal savanna.

Beautiful shiny green leaves
Ideal for smaller spaces
Imposing stature
Often hosts orchids, ferns and bromiliads

Slender Blazing-star

Liatris gracilis

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water. Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Prominant olive crownshaft
Highly salt tolerant
Raised diamond-shaped trunk pattern
Requires shade when young
Attractive symmetrical appearance
Very showy clusters of flowers

Scrub Hickory

Carya floridana

Specimen tree. Use only where roots will be undisturbed.

Unique, fern-like leaves
Easily trimmed for smaller spaces
Sometime grows horozontially
Often draped with Spanish moss
Rare, despite being a South Florida native

Trumpet Pitcher Plant

Sarracenia flava

Found from Alabama (probably also in Mississippi), east into Florida and up the coastal plain to Virginia with occasional outlying populations. Trapping insects in the trumpet-shaped leaves is an adaptation to nutrient-poor soil conditions of wet or frequently flooded areas in the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Insects are lured into the slippery waxy portion of the upper pitcher tube by attractant odors and then slide down a coating of ultra-fine, downward point hairs, hitting the digestive enzymes. Bog gardens.

Uncommon edible fruit
Fruit attracts wildlife
Excellent choice for narrow spaces