Wild Florida Photo/Paul Rebmann Nature Photography will be participating in the Florida Native Plant Society Pawpaw Chapter 2026 Native Plant Expo on Saturday, April 25. This event is held at the Piggotte Center in South Daytona. I will have photo note cards, note card gift sets and matted prints for sale at this event from 9am to 2pm.
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Since nearly everyone in Volusia County and surrounding areas are dealing with clearing out and replacing frost-damaged plants I thought that I would feature some of the area's springtime wildflowers (some of which will be available at the Native Plant Expo).
This pretty yellow flower on a very short plant was photographed along the edge of Hopkins Prairie while backpacking in the Ocala National Forest. Rock-rose is also known as pinebarren frostweed and is a perennial herb of scrub, sandhills, dunes and dry open hammocks throughout much of Florida. Crocanthemum corymbosum is one of six Crocanthemum species found in Florida, all of which are native.
A frequent wildflower of sandhills from Volusia and Marion Counties north and throughout the panhandle is soft greeneyes (Berlandiera pumila). I photographed this wildflower at Falling Waters State Park in the panhandle. There is another species of the same genus, Berlandiera subacaulis (Florida greeneyes), that is only found in Florida.
One of the many wildflowers that I photographed in Tiger Bay State Forest is Southeastern sneezeweed. Helenium pinnatifidum is a common wildflower of wet flatwoods, wet prairies, savannas and swamp margins in most of Florida and is one of seven sneezeweed species (all native) in Florida.
While I have often seen Narrowleaf blue-eyed grass on the banks while paddling Florida's streams and rivers, they are also found in wet grassy flatwoods, wet prairies, damp fields and moist roadsides, where this photo was made. Sisyrinchium angustifolium is one of five blue-eyed grasses in Florida, all but one are native.
This Carolina wild petunia was seen blooming and was photographed at Paynes Prairie State Park. Ruellia caroliniensis is a common wildflower of sandhills, flatwoods and hammocks throughout most of Florida. There are five native petunias in the state as well as five non-native species.
Non-natives slightly outnumber natives five to one when it comes to spiderworts. Ohio spiderwort - also known as bluejacket - is one of the natives and is a frequent plant of disturbed sites throughout many Florida counties north of Lake Okeechobee. This Tradescantia ohiensis flower was photographed in my yard as were most of my bluejacket images.
Native Mimosa species outnumber non-natives 3-2 in Florida. Sunshine mimosa is one of the natives and is the only one without prickles, making it a nice ground cover for open sunny spaces. Also known as powderpuff, it is frequent perennial of sandhills, flatwoods and mesic hammocks throughout most of Florida. This image showing a field of Mimosa strigillosa was made at Gamble Rogers State Park.
Horned bladderwort is a frequent small plant of pond and lake margins and bogs throughout most of Florida. These were photographed in a then dry pond at Okaloacoochee Slough State Forest in south Florida. There are fourteen species of bladderworts in the state, all native.
Oceola's plume is a common wildflower of wet flatwoods, bogs and savannas in much of Florida north of Lake Okeechobee, although absent from the Big Bend area. My photographs of this plant were made in a recently burned area of Tate's Hell State Forest in the eastern panhandle. Stenanthium densum is one of three species of the genus in Florida, all of which are native and poisonous.
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Paul Rebmann
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