Plants of Florida - White Flower Gallery 2


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	Plants on this page - Bloodleaf, Tread softly, Sea Rocket, Carolina Redroot, Water Cowbane, Early Whitetop Fleabane, Capeweed, Rough Hedgehyssop, October Flower, Common Nightshade Click on any image to open a larger version Bloodleaf, Juba's Bush - Iresine diffusa Family - Amaranthaceae Habitat - Coastal Hammocks Description - Annual or weak perennial 2-3 feet average height, taller than broad. Leaves are opposite and variable in size and form. Flower - Inflorescence of many tiny white flowers with a feathery appearance. Stinging Nettle, Tread Softly - Cnidoscolus stimulosus Family - Euphorbiaceae Habitat - Scrub, Sand scrub, Coastal strand, dry sandy areas Description - Perennial Herb, 3 feet in height, leaf simple, alternate, palmate with 3 to 5 deeply toothed lobes. Plant is covered with stinging hairs which will produce a painful rash lasting for about an hour. Flower - Fragrant white, 1/2 inch across and tube-like. Blooms during the warm months. Coastal Sea Rocket - Cakile lanceolata Family - Brassicaceae Habitat - Coastal Strand Description - Native. Annual, Perennial Forb, Sub-shrub. Clump forming, often rank growing, succulent with variable leaf form. Flower - White 1/2 inch, may be tinged with pale lavender. Carolina Redroot - Lachnanthes caroliana Family - Haemodoraceae Habitat - Wet Pineland, Savannahs, Marshes Description - FAC / Native. Perennial Herb 3 -4 feet high, taller than broad with flat, linear basal leaves. The only member of the bloodwort family native to North America. Flower - Clustered white and greenish-yellow flowers on a branched tomentose inflorescences. Water Cowbane - Oxypolis filiformis Family - Apiaceae Habitat - Marshes, wet to moist soils. Description - OBL/Native. Perennial herb 2-3 feet high with hollow stems. Related to carrot, hemlock. Flower - Umbel inflorescence of small white flowers. Early Whitetop Fleabane - Erigeron vernus Family - Asteraceae Habitat - Wet Flatwoods, Wet Prairie, margins of lakes, ponds on sandy soils. Description - Native perennial herb to 20 inches in height, basal leaves oblanceolate to spatulate, hirsute. Flower - White corollas with 25-40 ray florets surrounding a greenish-yellow central disk. Capeweed, Frogfruit - Phyla nodiflora Family - Verbenaceae Habitat - Wet Prairie, Wet Flatwoods, moist sandy soils. Common "weed" in South Florida lawns. Description - Native. Prostrate creeping herb to 3 inches in height, sometimes forms dense mats. Oblanceolate leaves 1 1/4 - 2 3/8 inch long. Flower - Compact heads of small white flowers on 6 inch stalks. Rough Hedgehyssop - Gratiola hispida Family - Scrophulariaceae Habitat - Dry Flatwoods, Scrub Description - Native perennial herb to about 1 foot high, leaves whorled and linear to slightly elliptic, thickened. Flower - White, sessile, tubular, 2 lipped asymmetrical. October Flower - Polygonella polygama Family - Polygonaceae Habitat - Scrub, Sandhill, Scrubby Flatwoods on moist to dry sandy soils. Description - Native perennial shrub to 3 feet or less, leaves are alternate, spatulate to oblanceolate in shape with rounded tips. Stems are woody near the base of the plant Flower - Small white to pink flowers produced in the summer and fall. American Black Nightshade - Solanum americanum Family - Solanaceae Habitat - Ruderal Description - Native annual or perennial, grows as a sub-shrub or Forb. Up to 3 feet tall with a spreading habit of growth. Leaves alternate, ovate with acute apices, leaf margins wavy, sometimes sparsely blunt toothed. Flower - White corolla, 5 lobed with 5 stamens and yellow antlers which are exserted (extend past corolla), fruit is a small green berry turning black, may be shiny or dull. White Flower Galleries 1 2 3
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