A frequent deciduous shrub or small tree of hammocks and rich mesic woods, sandhils, slopes, bluffs and ravines of the panhandle and the peninsu
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Emilia fosbergii - Florida tasselflower
A frequent wildflower throughout most of the peninsula and scattered panhandle locations. Native to the Old World, it is now also found in Geor
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Fosberg's pualele
Delonix regia - Royal poinciana
This tree is native only to Madagascar's dry deciduous forests and has been introduced as an ornamental in tropical and sub-tropical locations a
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Flame tree
Flamboyant tree
A frequent small shrub of flatwoods, scrub and coastal swales in the panhandle and northern Florida, south into Lake and Hernando Counties. The
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Hairy laurel
Sandhill laurel
Vachellia farnesiana - Sweet acacia
An occasional shrub or small tree of shell middens, coastal hammocks, pinelands and disturbed sites mostly in south and southwest Florida with s
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Huisache
Needle bush
Acacia farnesiana
Pinguicula pumila - Small butterwort
A frequent plant of flatwoods throughout most of Florida. The range extends through the southeastern coastal states from North Carolina to Texa
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Zeuxine strateumatica - Soldier's orchid
This annual orchid is native to Asia and now found in lawns, shrub borders, roadsides and other disturbed sites in most Florida counties. It is
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Lawn orchid
Centipede grass orchid
Spathodea campanulata - African tuliptree
Schoepfia schreberi - Graytwig
An occasional evergreen shrub or small tree of tropical hammocks from Volusia County south on the eastern coast of Florida and in across the pen
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Whitewood
Gulf graytwig
Schoepfia chrysophylloides
An occasional shrub of coastal beaches and dunes from Pinellas, Hillsborough and Brevard Counties southward along the peninsula and in the keys.
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Bay-cedar
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