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Aquilegia canadensis
Specimen plant or rock garden.
  • Wonderfully fragrant, carries a great distance
  • Formal appearance
  • Prominant gray-olive crownshaft
  • Beautiful pinwheel flowers, often multicolored
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Drypetes diversifolia
It is listed as Endangered by the state of Florida. Shade tree. Can be used as a specimen tree for its light colored bark. Slow growing.
  • Excellent small to medium hedge
  • Stout, swollen trunk
  • Heavy feeder
  • Distinctive-looking fruit with spiked exterior
  • Beautiful shiny green leaves
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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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Calamintha georgiana
This small shrub can be used in a dry wildflower garden or grown as a low border along paths. It would also work as a foundation plant.
  • Beautiful, natural globe shape
  • Excellent hedge choice
  • Hummingbird favorite
  • Unique, stout pineapple-like trunk when young
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Eupatorium perfoliatum
Wildflower garden especially in sunny moist areas.
  • Swollen, succulent branches
  • Bright red fruits
  • Stout, swollen trunk
  • Unique swollen blue-green to silver trunk
  • Fruit attracts wildlife
  • Moderately salt tolerant
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Berlandiera subacaulis
Even small plants can have large tap roots that run deep, but are easily transplanted. Endemic to Florida. Small specimen plant or groundcover.
  • Falls over easily, may require staking
  • Bright red fruits
  • Prominent blue-gray crownshaft
  • Salt tolerant
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Senna ligustrina
Because it's a legume it can grow in poor soils, but does better with added organic matter. Specimen shrub.
  • Requires ample space and light
  • Adequate moisture required
  • Moderately drought tolerant
  • Majestic, sprawling canopy
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Pityopsis flexuosa
Minimize competition especially if it is over-topping the Pityopsis. Endemic to the Florida Panhandle in a 6-county area near Tallahassee.   Listed as Endagered by the FDACS. Wildflower meadow. Foliage can be attractive year-round as it is silvery-gray green. Also suitable for naturalizing assuming plenty of light and minimal competition. The plants will spread locally.
  • Attractive blue-green to silver leaflets
  • Does best with periodic fertalization
  • Sometime grows horozontially
  • Magnificent
  • Can be grown indoors
  • Elegant, dense canopy
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Asclepias humistrata
Interesting pink veined foliage, showy flowers. Often lies on its side with the flowers held somewhat above the rest of the plant. Has an extremely deep taproot.  Is notoriously difficult to transplant. Small specimen plant.
  • Hummingbird favorite
  • Somewhat drought tolerant
  • Attractive glossy leaves
  • Critically endangered
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Balduina angustifolia
The first year, this plant is a small rosette. The second year, it grows in height and flowers. Balduina angustifolia is endemic to the southeastern coastal plain from Mississippi to Georgia with most of its range being within Florida (BONAP 2014). Archbold bee study (scientific names) Attracts many  insects , especially bees including Perdita bequaerti, Agapostemon splendens, Augochlora pura, Augochlorella aurata, Augochloropsis sumptuosa, Dialictus coreopsis, D. miniatulus, D. nymphalis, D. placidensis, D. tegularis, Evylaeus pectoralis, Halictus ligatus, Nomia heteropoda, Anthidiellum notatum rufimaculatum, A. perplexum, Coelioxys dolichos, C. germana, C. mexicana, C. sayi, C. texana, Megachile albitarsis, M. brevis pseudobrevis, Mgeorgica, M. inimica, M. mendica, M. petulans, M. policaris, M. pruina, M. texana, M. xylocopoides, Dolichostelis louisae, Trachusa fontemuitae, Nomada fervida, Svastra aegis, Apis mellifera, Bombus impatiens, B. pennsyl.uanicus, Xylocopa micans,  and X. virginica krombeini  (Deyrup et al. 2002). Casual wildflower bed, typically to the back as the flower stalks are tall.  We recommend treating this like a biennial.
  • Stunning long emerald crownshaft
  • Easily trimmed to maintain desired size
  • Requires ample space and light
  • Breathtaking
  • Does best in cooler areas of South Florida
  • Unique purple-brown crownshaft
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Quercus laurifolia
Depending on who you ask, there are two laurel oaks in Florida.  Q. laurifolia (swamp laurel oak) and Q. hemisphaerica (Darlington oak, sand laurel oak).  The taxonomists don't agree, and it appears that the two are distinctively different in north Florida but very much alike in southern and south Florida. They are separated here because one is a wetland and floodplain plant, the other grows in dry uplands.  Some authors note that regardless of ID, they get planted without much regard for origin or drainage. Often grown as a specimen tree, fast growing.
  • Massive stature
  • Unique foliage
  • Attractive contrast between flowers and foliage
  • Unusual deep green leaves with bronze underside
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Eleocharis cellulosa
This is a sedge and not a grass, but it does have a grass-like growth form. Useful in ponds to provide cover for wildlife and water quality treatment. Good in stormwater ponds.
  • Striking symmetrical appearance
  • Extremely popular
  • Beautiful shiny green leaves
  • Dense, full crown
  • Rare and unique
  • Breathtaking
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Lycium carolinianum
Succulent foliage. This plant is in the tomato family.  FNPS cannot vouch that the fruit is edible. Specimen plant, hedge plant
  • Forms an open canopy
  • Bright red fruits
  • Magnificent showy flowers in summer
  • Lovely dark green, shiny leaves
  • Ideal with Mediterranean architecture
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Bursera simaruba
This tree has a thick trunk and both the trunk and branches can twist into interesting shapes. The bark is red to bronze and peels. It's also called the tourist tree, who also may be reddish and peeling. Plant as a specimen tree to show off its bronze-colored peeling bark. Also makes a good shade tree.
  • Pyramidal crown
  • Dense, full crown
  • Prominent blue-gray crownshaft
  • Does best with periodic fertalization
  • Requires high humidity
  • Prolific fruiter
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Physostegia purpurea
Moist wildflower garden, wetland garden.
  • Swollen, succulent branches
  • Does poorly oceanside
  • Fast growth
  • Very full crown
  • Attractive variegated foliage
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Halesia carolina
Grown less frequently than H. diptera but worthy of planting. Grow as an understory tree in a mixed or deciduous woodland. It blooms in early spring as the leaves appear and is more dainty than H. diptera. Does well when planted in association with Ericacious plants such as azaleas.
  • Does best with periodic fertalization
  • Tiered branches
  • Stately and uncommon
  • Delicious edible fruit
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Euploca polyphylla
Sprawling. Best used as a wildflower.
  • Prominant olive crownshaft, slightly buldging
  • Attractive mottled bark
  • Pleasant rounded shape
  • Stunning
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Borrichia arborescens
Most reproduction is vegetative (Lonard et al. 2015). Plant in coastal wetlands on upslope side of mangrove swamps.
  • Unusually shaped, asymmetrical tree
  • Excellent edible fruit
  • Beautiful shiny green leaves
  • Wonderfully fragrant, carries a great distance
  • Attractive flowers, typically deep orange
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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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Pharus lappulaceus
Listed as Endangered in Florida.  Also found in Central and South America and parts of the Caribbean. This species has only recently begun to be cultivated in Florida.  Expect this information to be upgraded as more is learned.  Right now the only native nursery that we know of that is growing this species is Green Isles Gardens near Clermont, FL.
  • Stately and uncommon
  • Thick branching into attractive silouttes
  • Massive stature
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Myrcia zuzygium
It is listed as Endangered by the State of Florida.  Please acquire only from reputable sources with appropriate permits. Smaller specimen tree, hedge plant, or small street tree.
  • Rare and unique
  • Attractive glossy leaves
  • Formal, old-world appearance
  • Unique fluffy fronds