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Garden canna
Canna x generalis
Cannaceae
 

Copyright by: Shirley Denton

General Landscape Uses: Not native. Long cultivated and sometimes naturalizing in South Florida.

Availability: Widely cultivated.

Plant Map Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.

Wildlife and Ecology: Larval host and nectar source for Brazilian skipper (Calpodes ethlius) butterflies. Also provides food for birds.

Copyright by: Shirley Denton


Other data on Canna x generalis available from:

Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants


 
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