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Blazing-star

Liatris elegans

Wildflower garden.

Year-round blooms
Attracts butterflies
Unique foliage and silhouette

Inkwood

Exothea paniculata

Shade tree.

Highly nutritious fruit
Attractive dark green leaves
Very showy bright yellow flowers

Dwarf Palmetto

Sabal minor

Use as a small specimen shrub in moist areas. Can also be used in floodplains.

Often hosts orchids, ferns and bromiliads
Does best in warmer areas of South Florida
Tall and romantic
Easily trimmed to maintain desired size
Wonderfully fragrant

Scouring-rush

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

Sweet Pepperbush

Clethra alnifolia

The herbarium specimen from Polk County almost certainly has a wrong location. Lithia is in Hillsborough County and the most likely translation of a wrongly written latitude and longitude is also in Hillsborough County -- but the exact location would have been agricultural in 1962. Hedges, back borders. Blooms in summer.

Lovely dark green, shiny leaves
Attractive contrast between flowers and foliage
Magnificent showy flowers in summer

Edison's Ascrium

Hypericum edisonianum

This is a State-endangered species. Please honor all state regulations regarding growing and transport of this species. Plant in wet prairie setting, wet wildflower garden

Stunning
Unique purple-brown crownshaft
Distinctive-looking fruit with spiked exterior
Attractive dark green leaves