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Tridens flavus
Rear of garden as a screen.  Native meadows.
  • Medium stature
  • Beautiful rounded dense canopy
  • Unique foliage
  • Moderately rapid growth
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Asimina obovata
Understory shrub.
  • Tall and romantic
  • Relatively uncommon in South Florida
  • Beautiful rounded canopy
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Lysiloma latisiliquum
It's a legume, so nitrogen fixation may help it survive in low nutrient soils. Fast growing. Shade tree. Attractive for its lacy foliage. Does well as a street tree.
  • Stout, swollen trunk
  • Delicious edible fruit
  • Prominant gray-olive crownshaft
  • Prominent blue-gray crownshaft
  • Unique, stout pineapple-like trunk when young
  • Attracts butterflies
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Dyschoriste humistrata
Wildflower garden, groundcover
  • Dense canopy
  • Falls over easily, may require staking
  • Majestic
  • Colorful new leafs
  • Fruit eaten by birds
  • Self-shedding fronds
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Coreopsis leavenworthii
Coreopsis is the State wildflower. Cultivated flower beds, wildflower gardens, meadows, and butterfly gardens.
  • Long emerald crownshaft
  • Falls over easily, may require staking
  • Beautiful silhouette
  • Attractive silver-gray foliage
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Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum
Edible, very hot fruits
  • Pineapple-like showy fruits (female plants)
  • Bright red fruits
  • Does poorly in very wet soil
  • Attractive flowers, typically deep orange
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Morus rubra
Wind pollinated.  Dioecious.  According to Huegel (2010), the flowers attract insects. Plant tree in areas where fallen fruit will not be an issue.
  • Smaller stature
  • Imposing stature
  • Highly nutritious fruit
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Equisetum hyemale var. affine
Leaves are very small and arranged in circles around the stem at each node giving it a banded appearance. This is a fern ally and reproduces by spores. Water gardens, edges of retention ponds, rain gardens or bioswales.
  • Narrow enough for tight spaces
  • Wonderfully fragrant, carries a great distance
  • Lovely deep green, glossy leaves
  • Relatively compact and narrow canopy
  • Can be kept narrow
  • Prominant olive crownshaft, slightly buldging
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Quercus nigra
The wood is weak. Shade tree. Semi-evergreen with leaves falling just before new leaves emerge.
  • Attractive symmetrical appearance
  • Does poorly in very wet soil
  • Can be grown indoors
  • Showy clusters orange-yellow fruits in spring
  • Ideal with Mediterranean architecture
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Spartina spartinae
Primarily useful for coastal restoration projects.
  • Ringed trunk
  • Colorful fall foliage
  • Ideal with Mediterranean architecture
  • Adequate moisture required
  • Distinctive-looking fruit with spiked exterior
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Bourreria cassinifolia
Listed as Endangered in Florida. Please acquire only from reputable nurseries. The US range is limited to Florida. Globally, it is also found in the West Indies. Accent shrub, screen plant if used as a hedge.
  • Stately and uncommon
  • Adequate moisture required
  • Underutilized
  • No longer recommended
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Scutellaria integrifolia
Salt tolerance has not been studied but it has been recorded (in New England) in salt marshes, suggesting tolerance of at least brackish water and likely tolerance of some salt spray. Information is lacking regarding pollination for the species. However, the family exhibits flowers that are hermaphrodite, dioecious, or gynodioecious (fairly commonly), and is most often pollinated by insects, (bees, butterflies & moths, or flies).  Also has cleistogamous flowers,so self pollination may also occur(Collins 1976 as cited in New England Native Plant Trust, 2002). Wildflower garden. It blooms early before most of the other wildflowers.
  • Susceptible to breakage, even in moderate winds
  • Fruit eaten by birds
  • Edible, healthy fruit
  • Can be grown indoors
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Forestiera segregata
Hedges, screens.
  • Formal appearance
  • Classic Southern tree
  • Unique flowers, with petals like banana peels
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Mitchella repens
This  little plant produces two flowers with ovaries that fuse into a single fruit. Typically grown as a curiosity. This is a very small plant that acts as a groundcover with the caveat that the plants are very small. Keep it in a natural forested setting or establish in such an area.
  • Lush, dense shade tree
  • Wonderfully fragrant, carries a great distance
  • Fruit eaten by birds
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Specimen shrub.  Thorniness makes it a good property edge hedge.
  • Ringed trunk
  • Striking silhouette
  • Drought tolerant
  • Slender trunk, 4" in diameter
  • Flowers year round
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Rivina humilis
This species is listed as invasive in Australia. Foundation plantings, small speciment plants. Of year-round interest since it has both blooms and fruits nearly all year.
  • Beautiful rounded canopy
  • Unusual stilt roots
  • Relatively compact and narrow canopy
  • Flowers year round
  • Breathtaking
  • Highly salt tolerant
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Elephantopus elatus
Called elephant's foot because of the flat basal leaf formation. Meadows and wildflower gardens.
  • Unique, fern-like leaves
  • Attractive variegated foliage
  • Available multi-stalked
  • Attractive silver-gray foliage
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Sassafras albidum
Red/orange fall color is excellent. Leaves have three separate shapes: ovoid, tri-lobed, or mitten-shaped (left or right). Mature trees tend to have fewer lobed leaves. Subject to laurel wilt disease.  Please be careful not to move firewood or dead wood around.  Best not planted in areas where laurel wilt is present. A relatively small tree that often forms thickets. Best used in informal settings.
  • Healthy edible fruit
  • Handsome
  • Breathtaking and memorable
  • Highly salt tolerant
  • Unique purple-brown crownshaft
  • Excellent small hedge
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Coreopsis grandiflora
Wildflower garden or butterfly garden. A number of cultivars exist, but none are grown widely in Florida.
  • Moderately rapid growth
  • Requires shade when young
  • Unique, sweet, almond-like flavor
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Hyptis alata
Moist wildflower garden.
  • Prominent pale green or blue-gray crownshaft
  • Majestic and graceful
  • Lovely deep green, glossy leaves
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Viburnum obovatum
The name Walter's viburnum honors Thomas Walter (1740-89), English-born planter of South Carolina, who described this species in his Flora Caroliniana. Specimen plant, hedge or screen plant. Can be allowed to form a thicket, sheared, or kept pruned into a tree.  Fast growing.
  • Unusual stilt roots
  • Slender profile
  • Requires protection from strong winds
  • Often hosts orchids, ferns and bromiliads
  • Excellent hedge choice