An occasional tree of disturbed sites in coastal counties of the central and southern Florida peninsula. Native to Asia, this plant has escaped
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Indian mango
Conradina cygniflora - Swanflower false rosemary
A species of Conradina first described in 2009. Found only in Dunns Creek State Park, Putnam County.
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Morella cerifera - Southern bayberry
This common shrub or small tree can be found in hammocks, swamps, cypress domes, flatwoods, upland mixed forests and fresh to only slightly brac
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Wax myrtle
Myrica cerifera
Toxicodendron radicans - Eastern poison ivy
A common vine of hammocks, floodplain forests, swamps and disturbed sites throughout nearly all of Florida. The range includes all of the easter
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Rhus radicans
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis - Garden rosemallow
Rare outside of cultivation. Escaped in eastern coastal counties from Brevard to St. Lucie and Miami-Dade. Also introduced in Puerto Rico and th
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Shoe-black-plant
Chinese hibiscus, hawaiian hibiscus
Hibiscus x rosa-sinensis
Muenchhusia grandiflora - Swamp rosemallow
A tall soft-wooded shrub occasionally found throughout much of Florida in swamps, marshes and other wet areas, both brackish and freshwater. Th
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Largeflower hibiscus
Great rose-mallow
Hibiscus grandiflorus
Muenchhusia coccinea - Scarlet rosemallow
An occasional shrub-like plant of swamps and other wet areas found mostly in the central and northeast peninsula and also some counties of south
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Scarlet hibiscus
Hibiscus coccineus
Dysphania ambrosioides - Mexican tea
This native of tropical America can now be found in disturbed sites throughout most of Florida. It is now introduced in nearly all of the lower
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Wormseed goosefoot
Espazote
Chenopodium ambrosioides
Maritime pokeweed is a common plant of moist hammocks and disturbed sites throughout much of Florida. The range includes the coastal regions of
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Phytolacca americana - Pokeweed
A common plant of disturbed sites, edge habitats, open areas and wastelands throughout the eastern half of the United States, westward across th
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American pokeweed
Poke sallet
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