It’s easily found in the southeast United States (look for Hamelia patens var. patens if you want the plant that’s native to Florida), but be aware of nurseries that mislabel their Hamelia stock as native when
It’s not by any fault of their own, however: One of the most popular (and non-native) milkweed species, Asclepias curassavica or tropical milkweed, is widely sold in nurseries. It’s also been found to do more harm than good. When grown in warm climates where the plants don’t di...
As discussed in Beaury et al. (2023), the primary source of invasive plants into the U.S. is the horticultural industry, where hundreds of plant species categorized as invasive are still available for sale through mail order and retail nurseries. Beaury et al. (2023) analyzed a data ...
There are three subspecies of inch plant (wandering Jew): Tradescantia zebrina var. zebrina, var. flocculosa, and var. mollipila. Unsurprisingly, after it having been a popular houseplant for so many years, nurseries have also managed to create a whole bunch of cultivars through selective cult...