Blue Florida Wildflowers

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Picture - Rose rush flower

Name - Rose-Rush (Lygodesmia aphylla (Nutt.)DC)

Family - Asteraceae

Habitat - Dry sandy locations, Flatwoods, Sandhill, Scrub

Description - Florida native wildflower. Perennial Herb, linear basil leaves, flowering stalk is leafless and 18-36 inches in height.

Flower - Solitary, pale rose-lavender, pink or occasionally white flower, rays having toothed tips.

Pictures - Pineland Waterwillow

Name - Pineland Waterwillow (Justicia angusta (Chapm.)Small)

Family - Acanthaceae

Habitat - Wet Pine Flatwoods, Wet Prairie, Marshes, margins and floodplains of lakes, ponds and rivers.

Description - Native, Endemic to Florida. Perennial herb, 6-12 inches in height. Leaves opposite, narrowly lanceolate.

Flower - Purple, zygomorphic (2 lipped) on a spike arising from leaf axil.

Pictures - Giant Ironweed flowers, leaf.

Name - Giant Ironweed (Vernonia gigantea)

Family - Asteraceae

Habitat - Rich moist to wet soils, Ruderal, Pine Flatwoods, Hammocks

Description - Native herbaceous wildflower to 6 feet or more in height, leaves are alternate, variable elliptic, lanceolate to slightly obovate with serrate margins. Leaves may be pubescent or glabrous. Stems are pubescent, un-branched except at top near the inflorescence.

Flower - Panicles of 10 - 30 magenta or purplish disk florets, spring through fall in S. Florida.

Pictures - Flax-leaf false foxglove plant, flower close-up.

Name - Flax-leaf False-foxglove, Gerardia (Agalinis linifolia)

Family - Scrophulariaceae

Habitat - Cypress Domes, Marshes, Sloughs, Wet Pine Flatwoods, Cutthroat Seep often found in standing water.

Description - One of 16 Florida native Agalinis species, grows to nearly 5 feet tall, it is semi-parasitic (hemi-parasitic) on roots of other plants/trees. Leaves are alternate, 1 1/4 to 2 inches long, linear with entire margins.

Flower - Pinkish to lavender flowers, 1 1/4 inch long in the summer and fall in South Florida.

Picture - Forked Bluecurls in bloom

Name - Forked Blue Curls, Bastard Pennyroyal (Trichostema dichotomum)

Family - Lamiaceae

Habitat - Sandhill, scrub, xeric hammocks, pine flatwoods

Description - Annual. Forb/Herb. Plant is sticky

Height - 30 inches

Flower - Blue, 1/2 - 3/4 inch, 4 lobed upper lip, 1 lobe lower lip; recurved. 4 Distinct protruding curled stamens.

Picture - Rice button Aster in bloom.

Name - Rice Button Aster, Bush Aster (Symphyotrichum dumosum)

Native, FAC

Family - Asteraceae

Habitat - Open sandy areas of hammocks and flatwoods.

Description - Perennial, Forb/herb, sub-shrub 1 to 3 feet high.

Flower - Pale blue, lavender. 2 inches in diameter.

Picture - Pine Hyacinth flower with inset of leaf.

Name - Pine Hyacinth (Clematis baldwinii)

Native, Endemic.

Family - Ranunculaceae

Habitat - Sandy Pine Flatwoods

Description - Subshrub, Forb/Herb to 24 inches in height.

Flower - Pendulous and bell shaped, 2 inches in length, lavender to pinkish with 4 fleshy, curled, petal like sepals. Leaves variable from lanceolate to elliptical, unlobed to deeply lobed.

Pictures - Canadian Toadflax flowers, Canadian Toadflax plant.

Name - Canadian Toadflax, Oldfield Toadflax, Blue Toadflax

(Linaria canadensis (L.)Chaz.)

Family - Scrophulariaceae

Habitat - Open ruderal on moist or dry sandy soils

Description - Native annual, biennial. Herbaceous wildflower to 24 inches in height. Linear leaves

Flower - Blue 1/2 inch 2 lipped, upper lip 2 lobed, lower lip 3 lobed.

Picture - Florida Pennyroyal flower

Name - Wild Pennyroyal, Florida Pennyroyal (Piloblephis rigida)

Family - Lamiaceae (Mint Family)

Habitat - Sandhill, Scrub, Flatwoods.

Description - Native perennial shrub, 18 - 24 inches tall.

Flower - Light purple, 1/2 inch in height.

Pictures - Alligator Flag flower stalks, Alligator Flag leaf

Name - Alligator Flag, Fireflag (Thalia geniculata L.)

Family - Marantaceae

Habitat - Swamps, Marshes, margins of lakes, ponds and freshwater creeks.

Description - Herbaceous Florida native plant, broad lanceolate leaves may exceed a foot in length. Branched inflorescence rising above plant 6 feet or more in the summer and fall.

Pictures - Common Blue hearts flower

Name - American Bluehearts, Common Bluehearts, Buchnera
(Buchnera americana L.)

Family - Scrophulariaceae

Habitat - Pinelands, Meadows, Bogs, Ruderal

Description - This native Florida wildflower is found throughout the state, small (1/2 inch diameter) blue or white 5 petal flowers with notched tips produced on loose spikes are present from early spring through fall. Height to 24 inches with lanceolate leaves, leaf margins are occasionally toothed. Grows in sandy soils with a median amount of moisture.

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