Trees & Shrubs of Florida - Gallery 7


Florida's Nature/Home Florida Plants Native Trees & Shrubs Wild Exotic Plants Florida Vines Browse a list of plants Florida Wildflowers White Flowers Red & Orange Flowers Yellow Flowers Blue & Purple Flowers Florida Landscape Plants Trees Shrubs Florida Habitats Wetlands Uplands Florida Wildlife Venomous Snakes Birds Assorted Animals Glossary	Native Trees & Shrubs of Florida Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
	On this page - Reticulate Pawpaw, Bigflower Pawpaw, Buttonbush, Coin Vine, Southern Dewberry, American Beautyberry, Indigo Bush, Coral Bean, Doctorbush, Gopher Apple Click an image to open a larger version Reticulate Pawpaw, Netted Pawpaw - Asimina reticulata Family - Annonaceae Habitat - Flatwoods. Description - Florida native plant, endemic perennial shrub to about 5 feet tall, long petioles, leaf oblong to obovate, margins in-rolled. Bigflower Pawpaw - Asimina obovata Family - Annonaceae Habitat - Flatwoods, scrub Description - Endemic native Florida perennial shrub. Buttonbush - Cephalanthus occidentalis Family - Rubiaceae Habitat - Banks of streams, lakes, Swamps and wetlands. Description - Native perennial shrub to 12 feet, sometimes more with an equal spread. Leaf green, whorled, margin entire, ovate with pinnate veins, 4 - 8 inches. Flower - White, fragrant in 1 1/2 inch, round, tightly packed clusters. Coin Vine, Coinvine - Dalbergia ecastaphyllum Family - Fabaceae Habitat - Coastal strand, Coastal hammocks, Borders of Mangrove swamps, River and stream banks. Description - Native. Perennial, sprawling shrub or trailing vine. Leaves alternate, leathery, sparsely pubescent on top and bottom Flower - Small 1/4 inch white flowers in clusters at leaf axils. Fruit is a copper colored round pod. Southern Dewberry - Rubus trivialis Family - Rosaceae Habitat - Open dry to moist flatwoods, roadsides, thickets, disturbed areas Description - Perennial, Subshrub, Vine. Stems of variable length, sprawling, woody, barbed, hairy. Leaves palmately compound, toothed margins, prickly. Flower - 1 1/2 inches, 5 petals, white to pinkish. Fruit 1 1/4 inches, purple to black, very similar in appearance to a blackberry. American Beautyberry - Callicarpa americana Family - Verbenaceae Habitat - Common to woodlands and hammocks statewide. Description - Native perennial shrub, 6 to 8 feet tall Flower - Small lilac flowers in spring produce clusters of bright violet to purple 1/4 inch drupes. Indigo Bush - Amorpha fruticosa Family - Fabaceae Habitat - Stream, creek and pond banks, wet flatwoods, floodplains of rivers, hydric hammocks Description - Perennial, Deciduous shrub 3-10 feet high. Compound leaves, 4-8 inches long with 11 to 25 ovate to oblong leaflets, highly variable leaf shape. Flower - Scented spike, 3 - 6 inches long, purplish-blue with orange antlers Cherokee Bean, Coral Bean - Erythrina herbacea Family - Fabaceae Habitat - Pineland clearings, Coastal Hammocks Description - Native. Perennial Tree, shrub, sub-shrub to 16 feet in height. Leaves 7-8 inches long, alternate, compound with 3 ovate to cordate (arrowhead) shaped leaflets. Brilliant red tubular flowers in spring & summer, 2 1/2 inches long borne on tall racemes. Fruit is a narrow pod to about 8 inches, constricted around the bright red seeds inside. Attracts Butterflies & Hummingbirds. Note - Seeds are very toxic! Doctorbush, White Leadwort - Plumbago scandens Family - Plumbaginaceae Habitat - Hammocks, Thickets, Shell mounds, rocky areas Description - Florida native perennial shrub or vine, leaves variable. Distinguished by the unusual stalked glands along length of flower tube ribs. Flowers year round in S. Florida. Gopher Apple, Ground-Oak - Licania michauxii Family - Chrysobalanaceae Habitat - Scrub, Sandhill, Pine flatwoods Description - Native perennial, shrub, sub-shrub 3 to 12 inches in height. Stout, underground stems (rhizomes) from which it produces slender aerial shoots. The oblong stiff leaves are 1-4 inches long, 1-11/2 inches wide, lime green in color and have an oblong spatulate shape. The underside of these leaves are glabrous or finely pubescent, margins are shallowly undulate to entire. Flower - Inconspicuous, green flowers in summer and are followed by purplish-brown ellipsoid drupes that are 1/2 to 1 inches long. Important food source for the Gopher Tortoise and many other animals. Florida Tree Galleries 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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