Native Plants
There are so many reasons to incorporate native plants into our landscapes! They offer opportunities for water conservation and quality control, they provide habitat and substenance for our local pollinators. Because native plants have evolved along with our local climate, soil types and animals, they are relatively pest and maintenance free. The following list is a sample of the wide variety of natives that are desirable and usually easily obtainable.
COMMON NAME
Bay Cedar Suriana maritima
Beach Verbena
Beautyberry
Bitterbush
Black Ironwood
Black Olive Spiny
Black Torch Plant
Buccaneer Palm
Cassia Bahamensis
Clusia Rosea
Coffee Bahamensis
Coffee Wild
Cord Grass
Coreopsis - Tickseed
Crabwood
Dahoon Holly
Dune Sunflower
Dwarf Blue-Stem palmetto
East Palatka Holly
Fakahatchee Grass
Fiddlewood
Firebush
Flaveria Yellowtop
Florida Boxwood
Florida Privet
Frog Fruit
Golden/Beach Creeper
Goldenrod Seaside
Green Buttonwood
Gumbo Limbo
Havana Skullcap
Inkwood
Jacquemontia Blue Clustrvne
Jamaican Caper
Jamaican Dogwood
Krug's Holly
Lancewood
Laurel Oak
Lignum Vitae
Limber Caper
Live Oak
Locustberry
Long-Stalked Stopper
Mahogany
Maidenbush
Maple Florida Flame
Marlberry
Mastic
Muhly Grass
Myrsine
Myrtle of the River
Necklace Pod
Needle Palm
Orange Geiger
Paradise Tree
Peperomia
Pigeon Plum
Pineland Croton
Pineland Heliotrope
Porterweed
Portulaca
Prickly Ash
Quailberry
Red Stopper
Redberry Stopper
Rouge Plant
Royal Palm
Salt Bush
Saltwater False Willow
Satin Leaf
Satinwood
Saw Palmetto Green
Saw Palmetto Silver
Scorpion Tail
Sea Oxeye Daisy
Seagrape
Seven-Year Apple
Silk Grass
Silver Buttonwood
Simpson Stopper
Slash Pine
Soldierwood
Southern Red Cedar
Spanish Stopper
Spicewood
Spider Lily
Thatch Palm - Florida
Thatch Palm - Key's
Twin Flower
Varnish Leaf
Walter's Viburnum
Wax Myrtle
West Indian Lilac
White Indigoberry
Wild Cinnamon
Wild Lime
Wild Tamarind
Willow Bustic
Yellow Elder Bush/Standard
Zamia Coontie
BOTANICAL NAME
Suriana maritima
Glandularia maritima
Callicarpa americana
Picramnia pentandra
Krugiodendron ferreum
Bucida molinetti
Erithalis fruticosa
Pseudophoenix sargentii
Senna mexicana chapmanii
Clusia rosea
Psychotria ligustrifolia
Psychotria nervosa
Spartina
Coreopsis spp.
Gymnanthes lucida
Ilex cassine
Helianthus debilis
Sabal Minor
Ilex x attenuata
Tripsacum dactyloides
Citharexylum fruticosum
Hamelia patens
Flaveria linearis
Schaefferia frutescens
Forestiera segregata
Phyla nodiflora
Ernodea littoralis
Solidago
Conocarpus erectus
Bursera simaruba
Scutellaria havanensis
Exothea paniculata
Jacquemontia penthanthos
Capparis cynophallophora
Piscidia piscipula
Ilex krugiana
Ocotea coriacea
Quercus laurifolia
Guaiacum sanctum
Capparis flexuosa
Quercus virginiana
Locustberry
Mosiera longipes
Swietenia mahagoni
Savia bahamensis
Acer rubrum
Ardisia escalloinoides
Sideroxylon foetidissimum
Muhlenbergia capillaris
Myrsine guianensis
Calyptranthes zuzygium
Sophora tomentosa
Rhapidophyllum hystrix
Cordia sebestena
Simarouba glauca
Peperomia obtusifolia
Coccoloba diversifolia
Croton linearis
Heliotropium polyphyllum
Stachytarpheta jamaicensis
Portulaca pilosa
Zanthoxylum coriaceum
Crossopetalum ilicifolium
Eugenia rhombea
Eugenia confusa
Rivina humilis
Roystonea regia
Baccharis halimifolia
Baccharis angustifolia
Chrysophyllum oliviforme
Zanthoxylum flavum
Serenoa repens
Serenoa repens 'Cinerea'
Heliotropium anglospermum
Borrichia arborescens
Coccoloba uvifera
Genipa clusiifolia
Pityopsis graminifolia
Conocarpus erectus var. sericeus
Myrcianthes fragrans
Pinus elliottii
Colubrina elliptica
Juniperus virginiana silicicola
Eugenia foetida
Calyptranthes pallens
Hymenocallis latifolia
Thrinax radiata
Leucothrinax morrisii
Dyschoriste oblongifolia
Dodonaea viscosa
Viburnum obovatum
Myrica cerifera
Tetrazygia
Randia aculeata
Canella winterana
Zanthoxylum fagara
Lysiloma latisiliqua
Sideroxylon salicifolium
Tecoma stans
Zamia pumila