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Psychotria ligustrifolia
Bahama Wild Coffee is an evergreen and low-growing understory shrub that can adapt to more sun than it’s relative Wild Coffee (Psychotria nervosa). It’s deep green, glossy leaves are tropical looking and can help a garden feel soft and lush. The berries are a superior food source for birds and they eat them fall through winter. The white flowers feed pollinators in the summer.
Iris virginica
Blue Flag Iris is a Florida-native perennial wetland plant that grows 2’-3’ tall and wide with bright green, sword-shaped leaves. It produces showy blue to violet flowers in late spring, each measuring 3”-5” across with drooping sepals marked with white and yellow near the throat. Thriving in wet soils and shallow water, it naturally occurs in marshes, swamps, and pond edges throughout Florida, making it excellent for rain gardens and bog plantings in zones 6-10.
Hamelia patens var. ‘calusa’
Calusa is shorter growing native cultivar of the large native firebush. It is evergreen, flowering, long-lived shrub that can be kept easily at its mature height of approx. 6’. It needs average to moist (well-drained soils) but can adapt to dry in little bit of shade. The year-round red-orange flowers attract hummingbirds and butterflies and provide food for birds. The foliage on Calusa tends to be a deeper red than the larger traditional native firebush and can turn burgundy in cooler weather. The fruit is edible and has a long history of medicinal and industrial use and can be made into syrup or wine.
Senna ligustrina
Privet Senna is an evergreen perennial shrub native to Florida that grows 4’-8’ tall with an upright, narrow-crowned habit. This fast-growing member of the legume family features pinnately compound leaves with many small, dark green leaflets and produces clusters of bright yellow, five-petaled flowers from fall through spring. The blooms are followed by thin, brown seed pods approximately 5” long. Serving as a larval host plant for cloudless Sulphur, sleepy orange, and orange-barred Sulphur butterflies, it's an excellent choice for butterfly gardens while also attracting bees and other pollinators. Thriving in full sun to partial shade with well-drained soils, it naturally occurs along forest edges and hammocks from central Florida southward and readily self-seeds in suitable conditions.
Zamia integrifolia
Coontie is perfect for a dry sunny or shady spot in the garden. It is extremely hardy and drought tolerant and is successful in harsh conditions like highway medians. It generally stays under three feet tall and 3 feet wide and has a tropical Florida feel. Coontie is an ancient plant and is Florida’s only living cycad. It is the important host plant for the Atala butterfly.
Erythrina herbacea
Coral Bean (Erythrina herbacea) is a deciduous perennial shrub or small tree native to the southeastern United States that grows 3-8 feet tall with compound, lance-shaped leaves. This striking plant produces tall spikes of brilliant scarlet, tubular flowers in early spring that are perfectly timed to coincide with Ruby-throated hummingbird migration patterns, providing critical nectar for these travelers. The blooms also attract long-tongued butterflies and bees, while the bright red seeds that follow are dispersed by birds, though all parts of the plant are toxic. Thriving in sandy, well-drained soils in open woods and forest edges, it serves as an excellent specimen plant for wildlife gardens in zones 8-10.
Passiflora suberosa
Corkystem Passionvine is a fast-growing, native, flowering vine that can grow to be 10’-15’ long with proper support. They can be grown in full sun, partial shade, or light shade and moist, well-drained, sandy, loamy, and limestone soils. They have small, greenish-yellow flowers for pollinators and dark berries that are loved by birds. They also serve as a host plant for Gulf Fritillary, Zebra Longwing, and Julia butterflies, making them an excellent option for pollinator and butterfly gardens.
Hibiscus acetosella
Cranberry Hibiscus is a non-native, Florida-friendly flowering shrub that grows to be 3’-5’ tall. These fast-growing plants feature dark red stems, foliage, and flowers, making them a dramatic addition to gardens and landscapes. They grow best in full sun and loose, rich organic soil. In addition to bringing in butterflies, pollinators, and hummingbirds, their flowers are edible for humans, and can be used to make teas, along with the young leaves.
Sabal minor
Dwarf Blue Stem Palmetto is a small, clumping palm that typically grows 3-6 ft tall with a trunkless or short-trunked form. It is extremely cold-hardy, flood-tolerant, and drought-tolerant once established. It thrives in full sun to partial shade with average to moist soil. This low-maintenance native requires little care and provides excellent textural interest and tropical appeal to landscapes. Its fan-shaped fronds create dense, attractive foliage year-round, making it ideal for understory plantings or as a distinctive accent plant.
Tripsacum floridana
Dwarf Fakahatchee Grass is a Florida-native ornamental grass with dense, clumping foliage that can reach 2’-3’. It does well in full sun to partial shade with average to moist soil. Perfect for rain gardens, borders, and erosion control, this grass produces graceful, spiky foliage and unique, showy flower spikes. The foliage provides shelter for birds and small mammals, the seeds are a food source for many birds, and the foliage is a larval host for several Skipper butterflies.
Myrcianthes fragrans ‘Compacta’
Dwarf Simpson Stopper grows to 4’ and creates a nice low hedge or border planting. Cream puff blooms and vibrant red berries add color and texture to any landscape. Drought tolerant once established, these small shrubs work well in non-irrigated landscapes. Of course, they don’t mind irrigation either!
Psychotria nervosa 'Little Psycho'
Little Psycho is a smaller native evergreen shrub that grows to 4'. This dwarf coffee is great for planting under smaller trees or in shadier areas. Pollinators love the summertime flowers and birds eat the berries fall-winter. It's also a host plant for the Tersa Sphinx Moth!
Psychotria nervosa
This evergreen native shrub is loved by pollinators and birds. Staying small at 2' or shorter, Extra Dwarf Wild Coffee is perfect as a low ground cover in shady areas, under oaks or as a border plant. Flowers bloom through summer turning into red berries in fall and winter.
Tripsacum dactyloides
Fakahatchee Grass is a large Florida-native ornamental grass with dense, clumping foliage that can reach 4’-6’. It does well in full sun to partial shade with average to moist soil. Perfect for rain gardens, borders, and erosion control, this grass produces graceful, spiky foliage and unique, showy flower spikes. The foliage provides shelter for birds and small mammals, the seeds are a food source for many birds, and the foliage is a larval host for several Skipper butterflies.
Foeniculum vulgare
Fennel is a highly aromatic, dual-purpose perennial herb that serves both the kitchen garden and the landscape as a vital host plant for swallowtail butterflies. Prefers full sun during the winter but benefits from partial shade during the intense summer heat. Grows best in average to moist, well-drained soil enriched with organic compost. It can be successfully grown as a perennial all year round in Florida, though optimal growth occurs during the cooler months. Features fine, thread-like, feathery foliage and bright yellow umbrella-shaped flower clusters (umbels). It can grow from 3 to 6 feet tall. An essential larval host plant for the Eastern Black Swallowtail butterfly. The plant brings a sweet, anise-like flavor to seafood, soups, and salads.
Ruellia caroliniana
Petunia’s are a beloved household wildflower that grows and reseeds prolifically in Florida. Often dappling the floors of woodlands and forests, this wildflower likes average to moist soils with dappled sunlight to full shade. It attracts many pollinators but is favored by bees.
Phyla nodiflora
One of our favorite native plant “lawn alternatives,” Frogfruit is a low growing, perennial evergeen groundcover that grows in full sun to partial shade and in dry to moist soils. Frogfruit is highly salt-tolerant, fast growing, mow-able and lightly walk-able. It’s also an important host plant to the Phaon Crescent, White Peacock and Common Buckeye butterflies and is a nectar source pollinators including hummingbirds.
Capparis cynophallophora
Jamaican Caper is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to coastal Florida that grows 6’-20’ tall with an upright to spreading growth habit. This striking plant features glossy, oval leaves that emerge folded and bronze-colored before maturing to light green with notched tips. In spring, it produces spectacular showy flowers with white petals and prominent purple stamens up to 2” long that attract butterflies and other pollinators. Following flowering, it develops distinctive cylindrical seed pods 3”-8” long containing brown seeds embedded in scarlet pulp. Extremely drought and salt-tolerant, it thrives in full sun to partial shade with well-drained soils, making it an excellent choice for coastal landscapes, screens, or specimen plantings in zones 10-11.
aka Hammock Twinflower or Swamp Twinflower
Dyschoriste humistrata
Lakeside Twinflower is a lawn alternative for areas where there is soil moisture (lakesides or swales) and/or regular irrigation. It’s perennial and can be semi-dormant if there is a freeze. Lakeside Twinflower blooms blue/purple flowers spring to fall and is a larval food source for the Buckeye butterfly.
Acrostichum danaeifolium
A majestic and prehistoric-looking native fern that makes a bold architectural statement in the landscape. It features large, upright, leathery fronds that can reach impressive heights of 6 to 12 feet. This robust fern thrives in full sun to deep shade and is particularly well-suited for wet areas, pond edges, or low spots in the garden. It is highly salt-tolerant and adds a lush, tropical texture to any damp or aquatic setting.
Salvia lyrata
Lyreleaf Sage is a long-lived, reseeding, perennial, evergreen, ground-covering wildflower that blooms in the spring and summer. Lyreleaf likes sun to shade and dry to wet (well-drained) soils. The purple flowers attract hummingbirds as well as other pollinators like butterflies. The young leaves are edible and the plant is used medicinally.
Petroselinum crispum
Parsley is a non-native and Florida-friendly many-purpose garden plant that can be grown year-round in Florida. It is an edible plant for both people and butterflies. Many gardeners include it in their butterflies gardens as it is an easy-to-grow host plant for Black Swallowtail butterflies. It can tolerate sun (in winter) and partial shade (in summer), average to moist (well-drained) soils, and it benefits from amended soils (organic compost/content).
Passiflora pallens
Pineland Passionvine is a rare, state-endangered perennial climbing vine endemic to Florida. This delicate species features small, pale yellow-green flowers with white coronas that are much less conspicuous than those of other passion vines. It thrives in mesic to wet tropical woodlands, preferring sunny openings and woodland margins with well-drained soils. As a host plant for several butterfly species, including the Gulf Fritillary, it serves an important ecological role despite its rarity. This vine requires full sun to filtered light and regular water, making it suitable for specialized native plant gardens and restoration projects in zones 10-11.
Passiflora edulis “Purple Possum”
Purple Passionvine is a Florida-friendly, evergreen, perennial, showy passion variety known for it’s fruit, unlike other passion varieties that are known for serving as host plants. While the fruit and the flowers are the stars of the show, Purple Possum also serves as a host plant for Zebra Longwing and Gulf Fritillary caterpillars, so you can use this plant to feed yourself, and your local butterflies! Grow in full sun with rich, well-draining sandy soil for the best blooms and fruit. The vines and fruit get heavy as they grow, so provide a sturdy trellis, arbor, tree, or fence to support them.
Myrcianthes fragrans
Simpson's Stopper is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to Florida and the Caribbean that grows 5’-20’ tall with glossy, dark green leaves. The new growth emerges in attractive colors ranging from pale chartreuse to deep wine red, and the leaves emit a spicy, nutmeg-like fragrance when crushed. In spring, it produces clusters of fragrant white flowers followed by orange to red berries that attract birds including cardinals, blue jays, and mockingbirds. The plant features distinctive exfoliating bark that flakes off to reveal reddish-brown underneath, providing year-round visual interest. Extremely versatile and low-maintenance, it thrives in full sun to partial shade, tolerates salt, drought, and poor drainage, and can be used as a hedge, specimen tree, or even container plant in zones 8b-11.
Tradescantia ohiensis
This commonly known wildflower is widespread across the east of the United States in woodlands and forests. It likes part sun to full sun with well-draining soils with average moisture and can grow 2’-4’. Its delicate blue flowers are a pop of color in any garden and attract a variety of native pollinators.
Telmatoblechnum serrulatum
Swamp Fern is a native fern that grows to be 2’-3 tall and 1’-2’ wide. They grow best in shade and moist to wet sand or pond muck. In addition to adding a pop of green to shady spots, Swamp Fern also provides cover for ground-dwelling native wildlife.
Nephrolepis exaltata
Sword Fern is a Florida-native fern that can grow to be 2’-3’ tall and wide. They grow best in shade with moist to wet, organic soil. These plants can be planted in the ground, kept as a potted plant on the porch, or used as a house plant. Plant in shade or rain gardens to provide cover for ground-dwelling wildlife.
Asclepias perennis
aka Aquatic Milkweed
A. perennis is a perennial, reseeding small wildflower that likes wetter conditions but if planted in shadier spots can be quite drought tolerant once established. It's white flowers bloom from spring though fall and serve as a nectar source for many pollinators. As a native milkweed, this plant is a well-known host for Monarch and Queen butterflies, but it also serves as a host plant for a few cool moths and unique to this genus bugs. A. perennis works well in butterfly gardens, along pond edges and in containers.
Viola sororia
Common Violet is a stemless, rhizomatous perennial native to Florida. This low-growing species features glossy, heart-shaped leaves that are edible. It produces attractive white flowers with some blue veining that bloom in mid-spring and in winter. It thrives in moist, rich soils and dappled sunlight but adapts to various light conditions and soil types. Known for spreading to form pollinator-friendly ground cover it's valued for naturalizing in woodland gardens and shaded areas.
Psychotria nervosa
Wild Coffee is an evergreen shrub native to Florida and the southeastern United States that grows 4’-10’ tall with glossy, dark green leaves featuring deeply impressed veining. This versatile member of the coffee family produces clusters of small, fragrant white flowers at branch tips in spring and summer, followed by bright red berry-like fruits that resemble coffee beans but contain no caffeine. The attractive red berries provide important food for birds and wildlife throughout summer and fall. Extremely shade-tolerant and adaptable to various growing conditions, it thrives in partial to full shade with moderate drought tolerance, making it an excellent choice for informal hedges, understory plantings, and natural landscapes in zones 9-11.
Zanthoxylum fagara
Wild Lime is a native evergreen shrub or small tree native to southern Florida and the Florida Keys that grows up to 23 feet tall with a spreading, often multi-trunked form. This member of the citrus family features compound leaves with distinctly winged leaf stems and 7-11 rounded leaflets that emit a strong lime fragrance when crushed. The trunk and branches are armed with sharp spines, and it produces small, greenish-yellow flowers in dense clusters followed by brown seed capsules containing black seeds. Thriving in hammocks and woodland edges, it serves as a larval host plant for giant swallowtail butterflies and provides cover and food for various wildlife species. With its dense, thorny foliage, it makes an excellent natural barrier or privacy screen for central and south Florida landscapes.
Ilex vomitoria
Yaupon Holly is a tough, evergreen shrub or small tree native to the southeastern United States that grows 15’-25’ tall with a distinctive vase-shaped form. This adaptable species features small, dark green leathery leaves and produces inconspicuous greenish-white flowers in spring, followed by brilliant red berries on female plants that attract birds and wildlife. Historically used by Native Americans to make caffeinated ceremonial tea, it's extremely drought and salt-tolerant, thriving in a wide range of conditions from full sun to shade and various soil types. Hardy in zones 7-10, it's valued for its versatility as a hedge, specimen tree, or screen, though it tends to sucker from the roots and may require regular pruning to maintain form.
Illiium parviflorum
Yellow Anise is an evergreen, deer-resistant, fragrant shrub that gets about 10’ tall (but is easily pruned) with a rounded, spreading form. This rare species features glossy, leathery olive-green leaves that emit a strong anise-like fragrance when crushed. The small, yellow-green flowers in late spring attract butterflies and pollinators and are followed by star-shaped seed clusters. Yellow Anise does well in an area of the garden with partial to full shade and consistent moisture (or irrigation).
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