Plants in Lee County


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Common Name Scientific Name
American beautyberry  Callicarpa americana
American bluehearts Buchnera americana
Ball-moss Tillandsia recurvata
Bulltongue arrowhead, lance-leaved arrowhead  Sagittaria lancifolia
Cabbage palm  Sabal palmetto
Camphorweed Heterotheca subaxillaris
Candyweed, Showy milkwort Polygala violacea
Climbing hempweed, Climbing hempvine  Mikania scandens
Coastal Plain willow  Salix caroliniana
Coastalplain goldenaster  Chrysopsis scabrella
Common snowberry, Milkberry  Chiococca alba
Coralbean, Cherokee bean  Erythrina herbacea
Corkystem passionflower  Passiflora suberosa
Eastern gamagrass, Fakahatchee grass  Tripsacum dactyloides
Elliott’s love grass  Eragrostis elliottii
Everglades morningglory  Ipomoea sagittata
Florida butterfly orchid Encyclia tampensis
Forked bluecurls  Trichostema dichotomum
Giant leather fern  Acrostichum danaeifolium
Giant wild-pine, Giant airplant Tillandsia utriculata
Golden polypody  Phlebodium aureum
Gopher-apple  Licania michauxii
Leavenworth’s tickseed  Coreopsis leavenworthii
Marlberry  Ardisia escallonioides
Muscadine, Muscadine grape  Vitis rotundifolia
Myrsine, Colicwood  Myrsine cubana
Oakleaf fleabane, Southern fleanbane Erigeron quercifolius
Pineland heliotrope Heliotropium polyphyllum
Pink purslane, Kiss-me-quick  Portulaca pilosa
Purple thistle  Cirsium horridulum
Reflexed wild-pine Tillandsia balbisiana
Resurrection fern Pleopeltis polypodioides var. michauxiana
Rosy camphorweed  Pluchea baccharis
Saltbush, Groundsel tree, Sea-myrtle  Baccharis halimifolia
Saw palmetto  Serenoa repens
Saw-grass, Jamaica swamp sawgrass  Cladium jamaicense
Shiny-leaved wild coffee  Psychotria nervosa
Silverling Baccharis glomeruliflora
South Florida slash pine  Pinus elliottii var. densa
Spanish-moss Tillandsia usneoides
Spurred butterfly-pea Centrosema virginianum
Starrush whitetop  Rhynchospora colorata
Stiff-leaved wild-pine, Cardinal airplant Tillandsia fasciculata var. densispica
Strangler fig, Golden fig  Ficus aurea
Swamp fern, Toothed midsorus fern  Blechnum serrulatum
Swamp-lily, Seven-sisters, String-lily  Crinum americanum
Sweetscent Pluchea odorata
Turkey tangle fogfruit, Capeweed, Frogfruit  Phyla nodiflora
Virginia live oak  Quercus virginiana
Virginia saltmarsh mallow  Kosteletzkya pentacarpos
Virginia-creeper, Woodbine  Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Water hyssop, Herb-of-grace  Bacopa monnieri
Wax myrtle, Southern Bayberry  Myrica cerifera
Whitemouth dayflower Commelina erecta
Whitetassels  Dalea carnea var. carnea
Wild-lime, Lime prickly-ash  Zanthoxylum fagara