Yellow Florida Wildflowers

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Picture - Coastal-plain Goldenaster

Name - Coastal-plain Goldenaster

(Chrysopsis scabrella Torr. & A.Gray)

Family - Asteraceae

Habitat - Sand Pine Scrub, Rosemary Scrub, Oak Scrub typically on dry sandy soils.

Description - Native annual herbaceous wildflower to 18 inches high, basal rosette of obovate to spatulate, rough textured leaves. Stems leaves are sessile and lanceolate.

Flower - Yellow disk flower.

Picture - Chapman's Goldenrod

Name - Chapman's Goldenrod

(Solidago odora Aiton var. chapmanii)

Family - Asteraceae

Habitat - Pinelands, Sandhill, Scrub, in open areas on well drained sandy soils.

Description - Native, perennial herbaceous wildflower to 3 feet tall. Leaves elliptic, acute apices, short petioles, margins entire, may be undulate or not.

Flower - Numerous yellow flowers on spikes.

Pictures - (L) Colony of Golden-club (C) individual plant (R) Golden-club flower close-up

Name - Golden-club, Neverwet

(Orontium aquaticum)

Family - Araceae

Habitat - Shallow water and margins of bogs, marshes, swamps, and streams.

Description - Native Florida herbaceous perennial, the broad blue-green glaucous leaves arising from a thick rhizome (rootstock), 12 - 18 inches high, grows in sun to medium shade and may be immersed or in perpetually wet soils. Flowers are on stalks growing separately from leaves in spring followed by blue-green berries.

Pictures - Canna flower close-up, Canna - whole plant

Name - Canna, Bandana of the Everglades

(Canna flaccida Salisb.)

Family - Cannaceae

Habitat - Open areas of marshes, margins of swamps and lakes, seasonally flooded Pine Flatwoods.

Description - Florida Native perennial herbaceous plant, leaves are glaucous, elliptic to lanceolate and 19 - 20 inches tall. Raceme inflorescence bearing 2 -3 inch long showy yellow flowers in summer.

Picture - Roundpod St. John's-wort

Name - Roundpod St. John's-wort

(Hypericum cistifolium Lam.)

Family - Clusiaceae

Habitat - Wet Pinelands, Bogs, Marshes, Margins of swamps

Description - This shrub is one of about 29 Florida native Hypericum species.
2 - 3 feet tall with branched terminal clusters of yellow flowers produced year-round. Dark green shiny lanceolate leaves.

Picture - Sandweed, Peelbark St. John's-wort

Name - Sandweed, Peelbark St. John's-wort

(Hypericum fasciculatum Lam.)

Family - Clusiaceae

Habitat - Pineland depression marshes, Wet Prairies, Swamp margins.

Description - Native shrub, 4 foot average height, leaves linear to almost needle form with rolled under edges. Yellow 5 petal flowers with many stamens, flower petals forming a pinwheel shape. Blooms year-round.

Picture - Coastalplain St. John's-wort

Name - Coastalplain St. John's-wort

(Hypericum brachyphyllum)

Family - Clusiaceae

Habitat - Wet Flatwoods, Wet Prairie, Marsh, Bog

Description - Perennial shrub 2 -3 feet in height, leaves opposite, linear needle-like with the margins being turned under. Yellow, 5 petal flowers in summer and fall.

Pictures - Florida False Sunflower

Name - Florida False Sunflower

(Phoebanthus grandiflorus)

Family - Asteraceae

Habitat - Sandhill, Dry pine flatwoods

Description - Herbaceous perennial wildflower to 3 feet +/- , endemic, frequent in central Florida - rarely found in South Florida. Sparsely branched stems, leaves are linear to lanceolate, mainly alternate but occasionally appear as  approximately opposite. Blooms March through November.

Pictures - Florida Scrub Frostweed plant, Detail of flower & leaf

Name - Florida Scrub Frostweed

(Helianthemum nashii Britton)

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.

Pictures - (L) Yellow Butterwort flower (R) Basal rosette of leaves

Name - 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.

Pictures - (Left to right) Pineland Heliotropes' sprawling habit of growth, branch arrangement, and detail of flowers.

Name - Pineland Heliotrope

(Heliotropium polyphyllum Lehm.)

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 colors range from white to yellow.

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