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Salvia azurea
Wildflower garden, suitable for naturalizing.
  • Requires high humidity
  • Fruit eaten by birds
  • Magnificent showy flowers in summer
  • Unusually shaped, asymmetrical tree
  • Highly salt tolerant
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Ernodea littoralis
Low specimen plant, mass plantings. Can be used as a low hedge, even sheared. Useful for beach dune stabilization.
  • Briefly bare for about a month in the winter
  • Beautiful silhouette
  • Majestic, sprawling canopy
  • Excellent small to medium hedge
  • Cornerstone plant in South Florida
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Aletris lutea
Moist wildflower garden. As it is tall and thin, it's best planted as a group toward the rear of other plants.
  • Pleasant rounded shape
  • Native
  • Dense canopy
  • Elegant
  • Beautiful, natural globe shape
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Lilium catesbaei
In the natural environment, this species benefits from periodic fire. Very difficult to see except when in bloom. Retain if present. Could be grown as a small specimen plant in a wildflower garden.
  • Showy reddish peeling bark
  • Handsome
  • Cold tolerant
  • Can be grown indoors
  • Pyramidal crown
  • Imposing stature
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Hypericum myrtifolium
Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water. Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
  • Attractive dark green leaves
  • Unique fluffy fronds
  • Prominant gray-olive crownshaft
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Myrcianthes fragrans
Specimen plant. Roadsides, parking lot edges, and medians. Smaller forms can make good foundation screens.
  • Attractive contrast between flowers and foliage
  • Damaged by citrus canker
  • Colorful fall foliage
  • Healthy edible fruit
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Dryopteris ludoviciana
Groundcover for moist, shady areas. This is an attractive fern that can form large patches in the right habitat area.
  • Compact and versatile
  • Decorative diamond-shaped trunk pattern
  • Unique foliage and silhouette
  • Showy fall color
  • Prefers acidic soil
  • Tropical silhouette
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Pinckneya bracteata
The showy part of the flower is the white, pink or rose bracts that become petal-like. This species is listed as Threatened by the State of Florida. Please acquire from reputable nurseries. Based on the BONAP maps and the ISB map, this part of the Pinckneya range that is in the Apalachicola National Forest is contiguous with the main body of the species' range in Georgia and South Carolina.  The part of its range in the peninsula, in the Ocala National Forest area, appears to be disjunct. Specimen shrub or small tree.
  • Delicious edible fruit
  • Prominant olive crownshaft
  • Intoxicating fragrance
  • Very showy clusters of red flowers
  • Healthy edible fruit
  • Narrow canopy
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Crataegus phaenopyrum
Listed as Endangered by the State of Florida. Specimen plant, screen, or can be pruned into a hedge. Fall color is orange-red and moderately showy in regions with adequate cold.
  • Long-lasting year-round blooms
  • Showy reddish peeling bark
  • Beautiful shiny green leaves
  • Attractive flowers, typically deep orange
  • Falls over easily, may require staking
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Eugenia axillaris
Fruits are edible. Hedge or screen.
  • Clusters of tubular flowers
  • Does poorly oceanside
  • Susceptible to breakage, even in moderate winds
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Piloblephis rigida
This is nearly endemic to Florida (there are a few documented occurrences in southeastern Georgia). Wildflower garden, groundcover.
  • Attracts butterflies
  • Long emerald crownshaft
  • Ringed trunk
  • Unique foliage and silhouette
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Halesia diptera
Use as a specimen plant or as an understory in a mixed hardwood forest setting. This tree blooms in early spring before the leaves come out.
  • Attractive light to medium green crownshaft
  • Attractive dark green leaves
  • Drought tolerant
  • Narrow crown
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Chrysopsis mariana
Use in  wildflower gardens. Gradually spreads to form small clusters of plants.
  • Moderately slow growth
  • Ringed trunk
  • Very showy bright yellow flowers