Salt Marsh
There are 78 taxa reported for the Salt Marsh habitat
in the Florida Keys
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A short description of the Salt Marsh community from The Florida Natural Areas Inventory (FNAI) is “estuarine wetland on muck/sand/or limestone substrate; inundated with saltwater by daily tides; statewide; occasional or rare fire; treeless, dense herb layer with few shrubs; saltmarsh cordgrass, needle rush, saltgrass, saltwort, perennial glasswort, seaside oxeye.” A full description can be found in FNAI’s 2010 Guide to the Natural Communities of Florida.
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Habitats:
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Common Name: |
Florida Keys Native Status: |
| Acrostichum aureum |
Golden leather fern |
Native
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| Acrostichum danaeifolium |
Giant leather fern |
Native
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| Agalinis maritima |
Saltmarsh false foxglove |
Native
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| Avicennia germinans |
Black mangrove |
Native
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| Baccharis angustifolia |
Narrowleaved groundsel, Saltwater Falsewillow |
Native
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| Bacopa monnieri |
Water hyssop, Herb-of-grace |
Native
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| Batis maritima |
Saltwort, Turtleweed |
Native
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| Blutaparon vermiculare |
Samphire, Silverhead |
Native
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| Borrichia arborescens |
Green sea-oxeye-daisy, Tree seaside oxeye |
Native
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| Borrichia frutescens |
Silver sea-oxeye-daisy, Bushy seaside oxeye |
Native
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| Borrichia x cubana |
Cuban sea-oxeye-daisy |
Native
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| Casuarina equisetifolia |
Australian-pine, Horsetail casuarina |
Not Native, Naturalized
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| Centella asiatica |
Coinwort, Spadeleaf |
Native
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| Conocarpus erectus |
Buttonwood |
Native
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| Cuscuta pentagona |
Fiveangled dodder |
Native
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| Cynodon dactylon var. dactylon |
Bermuda grass |
Not Native, Naturalized
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| Dalbergia ecastaphyllum |
Coinvine |
Native
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| Distichlis spicata |
Saltgrass |
Native
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| Eleocharis cellulosa |
Gulf Coast spikerush |
Native
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| Eleocharis geniculata |
Canada spikerush |
Native
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| Eriochloa michauxii var. michauxii |
Longleaf cup grass, Michaux’s cup grass |
Native
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| Eupatorium serotinum |
Lateflowering thoroughwort |
Doubtfully Native
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| Euphorbia blodgettii |
Limestone sandmat |
Native
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| Eustachys petraea |
Common fingergrass, Pinewoods fingergrass |
Native
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| Eustoma exaltatum |
Marsh gentian, Seaside gentian, Catchfly prairie-gentian |
Native
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| Fimbristylis cymosa |
Hurricane sedge, Hurricanegrass |
Not Native, Naturalized
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| Fimbristylis spadicea |
Marsh fimbry |
Native
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| Flaveria linearis |
Narrowleaf yellowtops |
Native
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| Funastrum clausum |
Whitevine, White twinevine |
Native
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| Heliotropium angiospermum |
Scorpionstail |
Native
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| Heliotropium curassavicum |
Seaside heliotrope, Salt heliotrope |
Native
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| Ipomoea sagittata |
Everglades morningglory |
Native
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| Juncus roemerianus |
Black needle rush, Needle rush, Black rush |
Possibly Extirpated
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| Laguncularia racemosa |
White mangrove |
Native
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| Leptochloa dubia |
Green spangletop |
Native
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| Limonium carolinianum |
Saltmarsh-rosemary, Carolina sealavender |
Native
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| Lycium carolinianum |
Christmasberry, Carolina desertthorn |
Native
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| Maytenus phyllanthoides |
Florida mayten |
Native
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| Monanthochloe littoralis |
Shoregrass, Keygrass |
Native
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| Muhlenbergia capillaris |
Muhlygrass, Hairawn muhly |
Native
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| Opuntia stricta |
Erect pricklypear |
Native
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| Panicum virgatum |
Switchgrass |
Native
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| Paspalum vaginatum |
Seashore paspalum |
Native
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| Phyla nodiflora |
Turkey tangle fogfruit, Capeweed, Frogfruit |
Native
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| Pluchea carolinensis |
Cure-for-all |
Not Native, Naturalized
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| Pluchea odorata |
Sweetscent |
Native
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| Portulaca oleracea |
Purslane, Little hogweed |
Doubtfully Native
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| Portulaca rubricaulis |
Stalked purslane, Redstem purslane |
Native
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| Rayjacksonia phyllocephala |
Camphor daisy |
Native
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| Rhabdadenia biflora |
Mangrove rubbervine, Mangrovevine |
Native
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| Rhizophora mangle |
Red mangrove |
Native
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| Rhynchospora colorata |
Starrush whitetop |
Native
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| Sabatia stellaris |
Rose-of-Plymouth |
Native
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| Salicornia bigelovii |
Annual glasswort |
Native
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| Samolus ebracteatus |
Water pimpernel, Limewater brookweed |
Native
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| Sarcocornia perennis |
Perennial glasswort |
Native
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| Schinus terebinthifolius |
Brazilian-pepper |
Not Native, Naturalized
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| Sesuvium portulacastrum |
Perennial sea-purslane, Shoreline seapurslane |
Native
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| Seutera angustifolia |
Vine milkweed, Gulf Coast swallowwort |
Native
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| Solidago sempervirens |
Seaside goldenrod |
Native
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| Solidago stricta |
Wand goldenrod |
Native
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| Spartina patens |
Marshhay cordgrass, Saltmeadow cordgrass |
Native
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| Spartina spartinae |
Gulf cordgrass |
Native
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| Sporobolus domingensis |
Coral dropseed |
Native
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| Sporobolus pyramidatus |
Whorled dropseed |
Native
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| Sporobolus virginicus |
Seashore dropseed |
Native
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| Suaeda linearis |
Sea-blite, Annual seepweed |
Native
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| Symphyotrichum tenuifolium |
Brace’s aster |
Native
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| Tillandsia fasciculata var. densispica |
Stiff-leaved wild-pine, Cardinal airplant |
Native
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| Tillandsia flexuosa |
Banded wild-pine, Twisted airplant |
Native
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| Tillandsia paucifolia |
Twisted wild-pine, Potbelly airplant |
Native
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| Tillandsia recurvata |
Ball-moss |
Native
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| Tillandsia usneoides |
Spanish-moss |
Native
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| Tillandsia utriculata |
Giant wild-pine, Giant airplant |
Native
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| Trianthema portulacastrum |
Desert horsepurslane |
Native
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| Typha domingensis |
Southern cat-tail |
Native
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| Vanilla barbellata |
Wormvine orchid |
Native
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| Washingtonia robusta |
Desert palm, Washington fan palm |
Not Native, Naturalized
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