IRC - Natives for Your Neighborhood

Wildlife-Plant Interactions

Plant Associates of
Northern Cardinal

Common Name	Scientific Name	Plant Uses
Bahama senna, Chapman's wild sensitive plant	Senna mexicana var. chapmanii	Provides shelter and source of seeds and insects.
Bahama wild coffee	Psychotria ligustrifolia	Provides shelter and source of fruit and insects.
Buttonwood	Conocarpus erectus	Provides shelter and source of insects.
Coco-plum	Chrysobalanus icaco	Provides shelter and source of fruit and insects.
Dwarf palmetto, Bluestem palm	Sabal minor	Provides shelter and source of fruit and insects.
Firebush	Hamelia patens var. patens	Provides shelter and source of nectar, fruit and insects.
Gumbo-limbo	Bursera simaruba	Provides shelter and source of fruit and insects.
Marlberry	Ardisia escallonioides	Provides shelter and source of fruit and insects.
Privet senna, Privet wild sensitive plant	Senna ligustrina	Provides shelter and source of seeds and insects.
Saw palmetto	Serenoa repens	Provides shelter and source of fruit and insects.
Scrub palmetto	Sabal etonia	Provides shelter and source of fruit and insects.
Seagrape	Coccoloba uvifera	Provides shelter and source of fruit and insects.
Shiny-leaved wild coffee	Psychotria nervosa	Provides shelter and source of fruit and insects.
Short-leaf fig, Wild banyan tree	Ficus citrifolia	Provides shelter and source of fruit and insects.
Shortleaf wild coffee	Psychotria tenuifolia	Provides shelter and source of fruit and insects.
Slash pine	Pinus elliottii	Provides shelter and source of seeds and insects.
Strangler fig, Golden fig	Ficus aurea	Provides shelter and source of fruit and insects.
Virginia live oak	Quercus virginiana	Provides shelter and source of seeds and insects.
Wax myrtle, Southern Bayberry	Myrica cerifera	Provides shelter and source of fruit.
West Indian mahogany, Cuban mahogany	Swietenia mahagoni	Provides shelter and source of insects.
Wild-sage, Buttonsage	Lantana involucrata	Provides shelter and source of nectar, fruit and insects.
Wild-tamarind, False tamarind	Lysiloma latisiliquum	Provides shelter and source of seeds and insects.