Welcome to our guide to the plants of South Florida, divided into four pages, covering more than 400 species listed alphabetically by family. Mangroves, ferns and lichens are together on page 4. Note: this guide is under construction, so please pardon our "dust." Navigating the Guide Page ...
1989. Flowering Plants of Florida: A Guide to Common Families. Biological Illustrations, Inc., Gainesville, Florida.Zomlefer, W. B. 1989. Flowering plants of Florida. Douglas Printing Co., Inc., Jacksonville. 207 pp.ZomleferW.B. 1989. Flowering Plants of Florida: A Guide to Common ...
Florida Friendly Plants for your garden and patio containers. Butterfly and pollinator plants for monarch butterflies, bees and hummingbirds.
Plants Best Avoided in the Sunshine State August 23, 2024By Les Harrison Late summer is the time for enjoying panhandle Florida’s great outdoors. There is gardening, boating, cycling, hiking and numerous other leisure time activities which enhance the area’s pleasant natural environment. It is...
beautiful flowering plants.However,orchids are not easy to take care of.They can die easily.There are more than 20,000 species of orchids around the world,but some of them are in danger of disappearing.Botanists in Florida have started on a five-year project to save some...
Most dogwood shrubs and trees grow quickly, with a fast rate of over a foot a year. Trees will reach full size in about a decade.Flower color: White is the usual color of the dogwood’s petal-like bracts, but some are pink or even pale red, such as C. florida‘Rubra’.Foliage...
Botanical Name: Weigela Florida These plants are Chinese and Korean natives with pink, red, or white trumpet-shaped flowers that are loved by hummingbirds. 23. Spike Winter Hazel Botanical Name: Corylopsis spicata This deciduous shrub blooms in the early spring with racemes of pale yellow, frag...
formed a clade in Malvales. Phylogenetic positions of partially heterotrophic families such as Burmanniaceae (with both partially and fully mycoheterotrophic plants) and Krameriaceae (hemiparasites) that have retained a larger number of putatively functional plastid genes were resolved with high support...
Until now,scientists have not grown plants in the soil. "So,what happens when you grow plants in lunar soil?What would plants do in a lunar greenhouse?Could we have lunar farmers?" Professor Ferl questioned. To answer these questions,researchers from Florida set out to plan...
The smaller pink flowers of Sweet William come in so many shades of pink that there is sure to be one to your liking. The smaller plants have a mounding habit. The taller version has larger flowers. These are not as winter-hardy but have a gorgeous flower clump that makes it worth tryi...