White Florida Wildflowers

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Picture - Bloodleaf plant and flowers

Name - 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.

Pictures - Stinging Nettle flower close-up, Stinging Nettle plant.

Name - Stinging Nettle, Bull 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.

Pictures - Coastal Sea-rocket plant, Close-up of flowers.

Name - 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.

Pictures - Carolina Redroot plant, Close-up of flowers.

Name - Carolina Redroot, Bloodroot

(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.

Pictures - Buttonbush plant, Close-up of flower.

Name - Buttonbush, Common buttonbush

(Cephalanthus occidentalis)

Family - Rubiaceae

Habitat - Banks of streams, lakes, Swamps and wetlands.

Description - OBL / 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.

Pictures - Coin vine stem with flowers, close-up of Coin vine flowers

Name - 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.

Picture - Water Cowbane flowers.

Name - 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.

Picture - Early White-top Fleabane flowers.

Name - 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.

Picture - Capeweed flowers

Name - Capeweed, Frogfruit, Turkey Tangle

(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.

Pictures - Rough Hedgehyssop plant, Close-up of flowers.

Name - 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.

Pictures - Common Nightshade plant, Close-up of flowers.

Name - Common Nightshade, 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.

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