Natives For Your Neighborhood Plant List
Plants in Lee County
Below is a list of cultivated native plants for this zip code. These plants, all within their historical range in this geographic area, are appropriate for use in landscaping here. By planting these native species, you will not only create a low-maintenance landscape to enjoy, but you will also contribute to the conservation and restoration of South Florida’s environment. (For more on this, click here.)
To take gardening with natives a step further, you can learn about the native plant habitats that are appropriate for your area (click the back button to view a list of those habitats). You can then choose a habitat, and view a list of plants for that specific habitat. This way, you can try your hand at restoring a native plant habitat in your yard or at a project site. Habitat lists also include some hard to grow natives and natives with narrow habitat requirements, such as strictly coastal species, that may not be included on your main zip code list.
To view detailed information on the horticultural requirements and landscaping uses of the plants as well as photos for most species, click on any plant name.
This county list is useful for:
· Street, highway, and other roadside plantings
· Parking lot plantings
· General native plant projects requiring only common native species
· Large-scale countywide plantings
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The zip code plant lists (found by entering your zip code at left) are useful for:
· Home, school, & office plantings
· Native plant community restoration and habitat restoration
· Mitigation
· Planting projects in and near conservation areas and parks
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Widely cultivated |
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Cultivated at native plant nurseries |
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Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Trees
Shrubs and Woody Groundcovers
Herbs
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American bluehearts |
Buchnera americana |
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Ball-moss |
Tillandsia recurvata |
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Bulltongue arrowhead, lance-leaved arrowhead  |
Sagittaria lancifolia |
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Camphorweed |
Heterotheca subaxillaris |
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Candyweed, Showy milkwort |
Polygala violacea |
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Coastalplain goldenaster  |
Chrysopsis scabrella |
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Eastern gamagrass, Fakahatchee grass  |
Tripsacum dactyloides |
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Elliott’s love grass  |
Eragrostis elliottii |
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Florida butterfly orchid |
Encyclia tampensis |
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Forked bluecurls  |
Trichostema dichotomum |
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Giant leather fern  |
Acrostichum danaeifolium |
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Giant wild-pine, Giant airplant |
Tillandsia utriculata |
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Golden polypody  |
Phlebodium aureum |
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Leavenworth’s tickseed  |
Coreopsis leavenworthii |
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Pineland heliotrope |
Heliotropium polyphyllum |
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Pink purslane, Kiss-me-quick  |
Portulaca pilosa |
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Purple thistle  |
Cirsium horridulum |
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Reflexed wild-pine, Northern needleleaf |
Tillandsia balbisiana |
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Resurrection fern |
Pleopeltis polypodioides var. michauxiana |
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Rosy camphorweed  |
Pluchea baccharis |
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Saw-grass, Jamaica swamp sawgrass  |
Cladium jamaicense |
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Southern-fleabane, Oakleaf fleabane |
Erigeron quercifolius |
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Spanish-moss |
Tillandsia usneoides |
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Starrush whitetop  |
Rhynchospora colorata |
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Stiff-leaved wild-pine, Cardinal airplant |
Tillandsia fasciculata var. densispica |
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Swamp fern, Toothed midsorus fern  |
Blechnum serrulatum |
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Swamp-lily, Seven-sisters, String-lily  |
Crinum americanum |
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Sweetscent |
Pluchea odorata |
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Turkey tangle fogfruit, Capeweed, Frogfruit  |
Phyla nodiflora |
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Virginia saltmarsh mallow  |
Kosteletzkya pentacarpos |
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Water hyssop, Herb-of-grace  |
Bacopa monnieri |
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Whitemouth dayflower |
Commelina erecta |
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Whitetassels  |
Dalea carnea var. carnea |
Vines and Climbers
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