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Shop Native Plants Prostrate Blue Porterweed
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Prostrate Blue Porterweed

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Stachytarpheta jamaicensis

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Stachytarpheta jamaicensis

Stachytarpheta jamaicensis

  • Florida’s only native porterweed, 1 - 2 ft

  • Full sun to light shade, average - dry soils 

  • Larval food for the tropical buckeye butterfly and nectar plant for many other Florida butterflies and skippers

  • Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds

  • Blueish/purple spike-like flowers, year round

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