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5 - Memory tricks and common names
South Florida native plants (and a few invasives)
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Gardening
Undergraduate 2
01/26/2026

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Term
rosary pea
Definition
poisonous vine with shiny red seeds
Term
maidenhair pineland fern
Definition
filigree ground fern
Term
Spanish needle
Definition
milk flower for butterflies
Term
locustberry
Definition
opposite leaf shrub with colorful small flowers
Term
love vine
Definition
twining yellow leafless parasite
Term
Florida silver palm
Definition
fan palm with silver undersides
Term
pineland heliotrope
Definition
yellowish flowered groundcover
Term
lignum vitae
Definition
opposite pinnate hardwood with purple flowers
Term
firebush
Definition
whorled leaved shrub red tubular flowers
Term
wild tamarind
Definition
bipinnate tree with white puffballs
Term
poisonwood
Definition
poisonous shiny pinnate dark-leaved small tree
Term
West Indian lilac
Definition
opposite leafed shrub with arching longitudinal veins
Term
burmareed
Definition
10 foot tall cane grass
Term
swampbush
Definition
palmate veined large shrub with tubular stamen
Term
slash pine
Definition
platy barked tree with needles in fascicles of 2
Term
wild coffee
Definition
shiny nervy shrub
Term
lacy bracken
Definition
lacy, sprawling fern
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running oak
Definition
narrow leaved shrub with acorns
Term
live oak
Definition
massive limbed tree with ridged bark
Term
royal palm
Definition
large feather palm with crownshaft
Term
sabal palm
Definition
fan palm with split petioles and batwing fronds
Term
saw palmetto
Definition
creeping fan palm with spines on petioles
Term
sweet acacia
Definition
shrub with yellow puffballs and needle like thorns
Term
coontie
Definition
leathery leaved ground cycad
Term
cocoplum
Definition
coin-like leaves
Term
seagrape
Definition
dinnerplate leaves
Term
green buttonwood
Definition
pointy leaf clusters, domatia
Term
lancewood
Definition
S-shaped petioles
Term
crabwood
Definition
leaf base catches fingernail
Term
Simpson's stopper
Definition
fragrant opposite leaves
Term
Bahama wild coffee
Definition
not too nervy
Term
Jamaican caper
Definition
leaves silvery below
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Brazilian pepper
Definition
turpentiney, red berries
Term
cinnecord
Definition
thornless acacia
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