Plants of Florida - Yellow Flower Gallery 1


Florida's Nature - Home Bookstore Florida Habitats Wetlands Uplands Florida Plants Browse List of Plants Florida Native Trees & Shrubs Exotic & Invasive Plants Florida Vines Landscape Plants Trees Shrubs Flowering Plants White Flowers Red & Orange Flowers Yellow Flowers Blue & Purple Flowers Florida Wildlife Venomous Snakes Birds Assorted Animals Site Map	Wild Florida Plants Yellow flower galleries 1 2 3 Plants on this page - Leavenworths Tickseed Bushy Seaside Oxeye Narrowleaf Yellowtops Smallfruit Beggertick Tall Milkwort Yellow Milkwort Candyroot Pineland Heliotrope Yellow Butterwort Florida Scrub Frostweed Leavenworth's Tickseed - Coreopsis leavenworthii Family - Asteraceae Habitat - Prairie, Pinelands, Moist open areas Description - Florida's state wildflower. Native, endemic perennial herbaceous wildflower. 1-3 feet tall with an equal spread. Leaves are opposite, simple, 2-4 inches long, lobed. There are seven species of Coreopsis which are native to Florida. Flower - A variety of colors - yellow, red, pink, purple, orange, 11/2 to 2 inches wide. Ray florets with dentate tips surrounding a small central disk. Bushy Seaside Oxeye - Borrichia frutescens Family - Asteraceae Habitat - Margins of Salt Marsh, Mangrove Swamps Description - Native perennial subshrub, 2-4 feet high with equal spread, Leaves grey-green, fleshy, simple, obovate to 2-4 inches. Flower - Yellow rays, 1-1 1/4 inch wide, central disk brownish-yellow. Narrowleaf Yellowtops - Flaveria linearis Family - Asteraceae Habitat - Coastal hammocks, coastal strand, pinelands, disturbed areas, often in colonies or patches. Description - Native perennial herb, subshrub 1 to 2 feet tall occasionally to as much as 4-5 feet, taller than broad, leaves are opposite, linear with entire margins. Flower - Clusters of showy yellow flowers. Smallfruit Begger-ticks - Bidens mitis Family - Asteraceae Habitat - Borders of marshes, swamps Description - Native annual or perennial herbaceous wildflower, generally sprawling habit of growth, 2-3 feet in height. Flower - Bright yellow, average 2 - 2 1/2 inches across. Tall Pinebarren Milkwort - Polygala cymosa Family - Polygalaceae Habitat - Woodland depressions, cypress swamps, savannas, wet pine flatwoods Description - Native herbaceous biennial. Flower stalks rise from a basal rosette of linear to lanceolate leaves. Flower - Small profuse bright yellow flowers on cymosely branched inflorescence to 3 feet tall. Yellow Batchelor's Buttons - Polygala rugelii Family - Polygalaceae Habitat - Moist sandy soils in pinelands, wet prairie. Description - Native, endemic annual forb/herb. Height to 3 feet. Flower - Small yellow flowers in densely packed heads, 1 - 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Candyroot - Polygala nana Family - Polygalaceae Habitat - Wet Flatwoods, Wet Prairie, moist open sandy areas. Description - Forb/Herb, Annual to 6 inches in height with glabrous, oblanceolate leaves, 2 inches or less in length. Flower - Small, lemon yellow flowers in 1 - 2 inch dense clusters. Pineland Heliotrope - Heliotropium polyphyllum Family - Boraginaceae Habitat - Moist to wet pinelands, margins of wet prairie. Description - Native perennial herb, subshrub with a low, spreading habit of growth. Flower arrangement is a one sided spike, like that of the Scorpions-tail and other members of the Genus Heliotropium. Flower color ranges from white to yellow. Yellow Butterwort - Pinguicula lutea Family - Lentibulariaceae (Bladderwort family) Habitat - Wet Pinelands, Wet Prairies, Bogs Description - Florida native wildflower, herbaceous perennial. This carnivorous plant traps small insects on the surface of its sticky basal leaves which roll up to digest its prey. Bright yellow flowers in spring, producing 2-4 stalks usually 1 foot or less in height. Basal rosette of leaves 2 to 6 inches across. Florida Scrub Frostweed - Helianthemum nashii Family - Cistaceae Habitat - Sandhill, Scrub Description - Endemic Florida native perennial subshrub. Height 18-20 inches, leaves are alternate, oblong with acuminate apex, margins entire, finely pubescent. Clump forming, common in open areas of Sand pine & rosemary scrub. Yellow flowers produced from leaf axils. Yellow Flower Galleries 1 2 3

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