Florida Plants and Trees
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Sabal Palm or Cabbage Palm
Bald Cypress
Beach Elder
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Sea Ox-eye Daisy
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Alligator Weed
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Photo Credit to Kerry Dressler
Swamp Lily
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Red Mangrove
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Green Saltgrass
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Black Mangrove
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White Mangrove
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Sea Oats
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Marsh Hay
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Railroad Vine
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Smooth Cordgrass
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Water Shield
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Photo Credit to Kerry Dressler
The water shield is a floating-leaved plant, but the long leaf stalks reach all the way to
the bottom where they attach to a long creeping root that is anchored in the mud. Water
shield occurs in lakes, ponds and slow streams, and prefers water up to six feet deep.
 
 
 
Golden Canna
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Photo Credit to Kerry Dressler
Canna is an emersed plant. It is a showy native which typically grows to four feet tall. It
grows in small stands at the edges of marshes, ponds and lakes. It has been hybridized
and may also be found in household gardens.
 
 
 
Water Pennywort
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Water pennyworts are very common. They have long creeping stems that often form
dense mats. Water pennyworts occur in and near ponds, lakes, rivers, and marshes.
 
 
 
Blue Flag--Iris virginica
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Blue flag is an emersed plant. These elegant natives are medium size plants, growing to four feet tall. They grow from stout underground rhizomes, and occur in a variety of wetlands.  Blue flag's large flowers make it almost unmistakable. They are pale blue to purple flowers and are the only large irises growing wild in Florida. Their leaves are narrow and swordlike, and up to 2 1/2 feet long. The leaves are pointed and flattened. They arise fan-like from a single base.
 
 
 
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