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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
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maidenhair pineland fern
Definition
filigree ground fern
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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
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pineland heliotrope
Definition
yellowish flowered groundcover
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lignum vitae
Definition
opposite pinnate hardwood with purple flowers
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firebush
Definition
whorled leaved shrub red tubular flowers
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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
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swampbush
Definition
palmate veined large shrub with tubular stamen
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slash pine
Definition
platy barked tree with needles in fascicles of 2
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wild coffee
Definition
shiny nervy shrub
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lacy bracken
Definition
lacy, sprawling fern
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running oak
Definition
narrow leaved shrub with acorns
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live oak
Definition
massive limbed tree with ridged bark
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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
gumbo limbo
Definition
massive trunk with reddish or silvery peeling bark on pinnate-leaved tree
Term
seven-year apple
Definition
fleshy, floppy, rounded apex, opposite leaves > 10 cm long on shrub or small tree
Term
fiddlewood
Definition
oblanceolate, opposite leaves dangle from reddish orange petioles on shrub or small tree
Term
pigeon plum
Definition
small tree with mottled bark and circular ochrea scar around twigs
Term
Geiger tree
Definition
medium sized tree with large, sandpapery heart-shaped leaves
Term
beach tea
Definition
moundy shrub to 1 m with grayish stellate hairs
Term
golden creeper
Definition
yellowish green groundcover with pointy, opposite leaves
Term
beach sunflower
Definition
triangular-leaved groundcover with golden yellow ray flowers and brown disk
Term
button sage
Definition
shrub with opposite, grayish, sandpapery opposite leaves < 5 cm long
Term
bitter panicgrass
Definition
rhizomatous grass with bluish leaves, the spikelets narrowly ovate in arching, open panicles
Term
Jamaican dogwood
Definition
tree with large, grayish-blue leaflets > 5 cm long
Term
Florida Keys blackbead
Definition
shrub or small tree, bipinnate leaves with 2 squat leaflets on each of 2 pinnae
Term
white indigoberry
Definition
small shrub with opposite leaves and right-angle branches, the stem ends sometimes spinelike
Term
necklacepod
Definition
pinnate, sometimes tomentose, shrub with yellow papilionaceous corollas and pods constricted between seeds
Term
Florida thatch palm
Definition
fan palm with prominent hastula and white fruits
Term
seaoats
Definition
rhizomatous grass with spikelets large, broad, and flat, > 15 mm long
Term
paurotis palm
Definition
upright clumping fan palm; armed petioles
Term
beautyberry
Definition
shrub; opposite serrate aromatic leaves
Term
satinleaf
Definition
tree; leaf undersides satiny bronze
Term
black ironwood
Definition
small tree; glossy undulate leaves, alternate and opposite
Term
pineland lantana
Definition
yellow-orange flowered groundcover; leaves opposite
Term
muhly grass
Definition
slender bunch grass with bright pink sprays of spikelets
Term
myrsine
Definition
small tree; fleshy, revolute leaves; flowers and fruits on stems
Term
Carolina wild petunia
Definition
bunching groundcover; purple corolla lobes
Term
Chapman's wild senna
Definition
sprawling shrub; pointy leaflets; yellow flowers, sickle pods
Term
West Indian mahogany
Definition
orangish canopy tree with large gray fruits, asymmetrical leaflets
Term
bald cypress
Definition
buttressed wetland tree with flat needles and often "knees" from ground
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 punctate leaves
Term
Bahama wild coffee
Definition
not too nervy
Term
Jamaican caper
Definition
leaves silvery below
Term
Brazilian pepper
Definition
turpentiney, red berries
Term
cinnecord
Definition
thornless acacia
Term
giant leather fern
Definition
leathery wetland fern > 2 m tall
Term
white mangrove
Definition
tree with rounded leaf apices, upper and lower leaf surfaces alike without prominent veins
Term
wax myrtle
Definition
leaves notched or deeply toothed and with turpentine odor
Term
red bay
Definition
leaf undersides light grey, fragrant
Term
red mangrove
Definition
opposite leaves and prop roots, in saltwater
Term
false mastic
Definition
big tree with tasty orange sticky fruits
Term
paradise tree
Definition
tree with shiny pinnate leaves rounded apically; leaflets alternate
Term
narrowleaf blue-eyed grass
Definition
grassy groundcover, lavender 6-pointed flowers
Term
blue porterweed
Definition
groundcover with opposite leaves and lavender corollas
Term
southern shield fern
Definition
fern, secondary leaflets falcate with 2 rows of sori
Term
Spanish moss
Definition
light gray strings hang down e.g. from oaks
Term
Eastern gama grass
Definition
bunchgrass with disarticulating rachis
Term
marlberry
Definition
shiny leaved shrub with fleshy, lustrous leaves and indistinct lateral veins
Term
scorpion’s tail
Definition
low herb to 60 cm, white flower in curved cymes
Term
resurrection fern
Definition
small epiphytic fern with oblong pinnae
Term
black mangrove
Definition
pneumatophores from water, leaf undersides white, salty
Term
dahoon holly
Definition
columnar shrub with dark green leaves with small teeth on apices, bright red berries
Term
buccaneer palm
Definition
feather palm with grayish trunk and lower sides of fronds, crownshaft ambiguous
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