Family - Asteraceae
Habitat - Dry sandy locations, Flatwoods, Sandhill, Scrub
Description - Florida native wildflower. Perennial Herb, linear basil leaves, flowering stalk is leafless and 18-36 inches in height.
Flower - Solitary, pale rose-lavender, pink or occasionally white flower, rays having toothed tips.
Family - Acanthaceae
Habitat - Wet Pine Flatwoods, Wet Prairie, Marshes, margins and floodplains of lakes, ponds and rivers.
Description - Native, Endemic to Florida. Perennial herb, 6-12 inches in height. Leaves opposite, narrowly lanceolate.
Flower - Purple, zygomorphic (2 lipped) on a spike arising from leaf axil.
Family - Asteraceae
Habitat - Rich moist to wet soils, Ruderal, Pine Flatwoods, Hammocks
Description - Native herbaceous wildflower to 6 feet or more in height, leaves are alternate, variable elliptic, lanceolate to slightly obovate with serrate margins. Leaves may be pubescent or glabrous. Stems are pubescent, un-branched except at top near the inflorescence.
Flower - Panicles of 10 - 30 magenta or purplish disk florets, spring through fall in S. Florida.
Family - Scrophulariaceae
Habitat - Cypress Domes, Marshes, Sloughs, Wet Pine Flatwoods, Cutthroat Seep often found in standing water.
Description - One of 16 Florida native Agalinis species, grows to nearly 5 feet tall, it is semi-parasitic (hemi-parasitic) on roots of other plants/trees. Leaves are alternate, 1 1/4 to 2 inches long, linear with entire margins.
Flower - Pinkish to lavender flowers, 1 1/4 inch long in the summer and fall in South Florida.
Family - Lamiaceae
Habitat - Sandhill, scrub, xeric hammocks, pine flatwoods
Description - Annual. Forb/Herb. Plant is sticky to the touch.
Height - 30 inches
Flower - Blue, 1/2 - 3/4 inch, 4 lobed upper lip, 1 lobe lower lip recurved. Flower has 4 distinct curled stamens.
Native, Endemic.
Family - Ranunculaceae
Habitat - Sandy Pine Flatwoods
Description - Subshrub, Forb/Herb to 24 inches in height.
Flower - Pendulous and bell shaped, 2 inches in length, lavender to pinkish with 4 fleshy, curled, petal like sepals. Leaves variable from lanceolate to elliptical, unlobed to deeply lobed.
Family - Scrophulariaceae
Habitat - Open ruderal on moist or dry sandy soils
Description - Native annual, biennial. Herbaceous wildflower to 24 inches in height. Linear leaves
Flower - Blue 1/2 inch 2 lipped, upper lip 2 lobed, lower lip 3 lobed.
Family - Lamiaceae (Mint Family)
Habitat - Sandhill, Scrub, Flatwoods.
Description - Native perennial shrub, 18 - 24 inches tall.
Flower - Light purple, 1/2 inch in height.
Family - Asteraceae
Habitat - Wet Pine Flatwoods, Savannahs, disturbed areas of Northern Florida.
Description - Native herbaceous perennial with 6-10 inch elliptic basal leaves. 2 1/2 inch, blue to lavender flowers in spring are produced on straight stalks up to 2 feet tall with opposite, sessile leaves.