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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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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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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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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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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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Pinus glabra
This is one of the few pines that grows naturally in shade. Shade tree. Forest tree.
  • Stout, swollen trunk
  • Massive stature
  • Can be trimmed into manicured shapes
  • Flowers profusely year round
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Baccharis halimifolia
Fruiting late in the fall, the fruits during the fall add substantial interest to a casual garden.  Baccharis glomerulifolia is similar in appearance and in potential cultural uses. Specimen plant in casual settings.  Also useful as a natural screen or buffer plant. Rain gardens or bioswales. The primary horticultural feature is the silvery, plume-like achenes which appear in the fall on female plants. The fruits can provide a white haze for several weeks in the fall.
  • Lovely dark green, shiny leaves
  • Highly versatile
  • Highly nutritious fruit
  • Prized scent, used in commercial perfumes
  • Elegant and stately
  • Long-lasting year-round blooms
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Gentiana saponaria
The range of this plant barely makes it into Florida and only 2 locations have been documented.  It is not rare in states to the north. Garden flower for wet sites. Blooms in late summer-early fall.
  • Prominant olive crownshaft, slightly buldging
  • Unique foliage and silhouette
  • Iconic symbol of the south
  • Highly nutritious fruit
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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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Clematis virginiana
Has male and female plants. Only the females will have showy seed heads. Clematis terniflora is a similar-looking non-native white Clematis that is considered to be invasive in Florida.  It is sold as an ornamental.  Please choose our native species over this Japanese plant. Grow on support such as a fence or trellis. Blooms late summer to mid-fall.
  • Pyramidal crown
  • Unique, sweet, almond-like flavor
  • Produces aromatic flowers year-round
  • Massive, nutrient-dense edible fruit