Plant List: M.E. DePalma Park Picture Botanical Name Picture Botanical Name Common Name Common Name Salvia coccinea Muhlenbergia capillaris Tropical Sage (red) pink Florida Muhly Grass Blooms: Year-round Blooms: Mid Summer - Fall Attracts Butterflies, Hummingbirds and Painted Buntings Florida Native Florida Native Psychotria nervosa Arachis glabrata Wild Coffee Perennial peanut Blooms: Spring-Summer Fruits: Fall Blooms: Year-round Berries are a food source for birds Native to Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay Male Butterflies need the alkaloids found in this plant, in order to mature sexually. Florida Native Callicarpa americana Gaillardia pulchella Beautyberry Blanket Flower Blooms: late Summer Fruits: Fall Blooms: Year-round Berries are a food source for birds Butterfly nectar plant Florida Native Florida Native Chrysobalanus icaco Stachytarpheta jamaicensis Cocoplum Blue Porterweed Blooms: Spring-Summer Fruits: Fall Blooms: Year-round Berries are a food source for birds Butterfly nectar plant Florida Native Florida Native Asclepias curassavica Pentas lanceolata Mexican Butterfly Weed, Blood-flower or Scarlet Milkweed Egyptian starflower Blooms: Year-round Blooms: Year-round Butterfly nectar plant for Butterflies especially Queens and These may be red, white, lavender, purple, or shades Monarchs of pink. Some are two-toned. All are extremely Monarch larval plant attractive to butterflies, and the red and dark pink varieties delight hummingbirds. Butterfly nectar plant Mimosa strigillosa Loropetalum Sensitive Plant Chinese Fringe Flower Blooms: Year-round Butterfly nectar plant Butterfly nectar plant Native to Japan and southeastern Asia including Florida Native groundcover southern China. Coreopsis_leavenworthii Coreopsis lanceolata Tickseed Lance leafed coreopsis Blooms: Year-round Butterfly nectar plant Butterfly nectar plant Florida Native Florida Native Lantana involucrata. Crossopetalum illicifolium Buttonsage Quail berry Blooms: Year-round Blooms: Year-round Fruits: Fall Butterfly nectar plant. Florida Native differs from the Mocking Birds & Butterflies invasive, non-native L. camara by having only white (not Florida Native multicolored) flowers like L. camara. Scutellaria havanensis Sisyrinchum atlanticum Havana Skullcap Eastern Blue Eyed Grass Blooms: Intermittent Blooms: Fall Butterfly nectar plant Butterfly nectar plant Florida Native listed as endangered by the state of FL Florida Native Heliotropium polyphyllum Liatris chapmanii Pineland Heliotrope Chapman's gayfeather Butterfly nectar plant Blooms: Spring Blooms: Year-round Butterfly nectar plant Florida Native Florida Native Rudbeckia hirta Liatris spicata Black-eyed Susan Dense Blazing star Blooms: Year-round Blooms: Spring Florida Native Butterfly nectar plant Florida Native Eragrostis-elliottii Eragrostis-spectabilis Silver lovegrass Purple lovegrass Florida Native Florida Native Flaveria linearis Helenium autumnale Yellow top Sneezeweed Blooms: Intermittent Blooms: Summer- Fall Florida Native Florida Native Licania michauxii Koanophyllon villosum Gopher Apple/ Ground Oak Bauer Aster Blooms: Spring Fruits: late Summer-Fall Florida Native Florida Native groundcover Zephyranntthes atamasca Erythrina herbacea Rain lily Coral Bean No image Blooms: 2-3 days after rain in Spring and early summer Blooms: Spring Florida Native Crotalaria rotundifolia Conoclinium coelestinum Rabbitbells Mist Flower Blooms: Year-round Blooms: Year-round Florida Native Florida Native Silphium compositum Symphotrichum carolinianum Rosinweed Climbing Aster Blooms: late Summer- Fall Blooms: Spring-Summer Florida Native Florida Native Vernonia angustifolia Nashia inaguensis Tall Ironweed Moujean Tea - Bahama Berry Blooms: Late Summer Blooms: Year-round Butterfly nectar plant Attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds Florida Native Flowers are fragrant departing a subtle yet exotic vanilla aroma Native of the Bahamas Tillandsia fasciculata Tillandsia balbisiana common or stiff-leaved wild-pine inflated & reflexed wildpine - northern needleleaf Blooms: Spring Blooms: Spring Florida Native Florida Native Endangered Threatened Rhus copallinum Cordia bahamensis Winged sumac, Shining sumac, Flameleaf sumac Bahama Manjack Blooms: Spring-Summer Blooms: Year-round Florida Native Native South Florida and the Bahamas Melochia tomentosa Eupatorium serotinum Wooly Pyramid Bush, Tea Bush Boneset, Thoroughwort; White boneset Medium size bush or small tree Blooms: Spring-Summer Blooms: Year-round Florida Native Attracts Birds and Butterflies Florida Native Verbesina virginica L. Heliotropium curassavicum L. Frostweed, White crownbeard, Iceplant, Iceweed, Virginia Blooms: Spring-Summer crownbeard, Indian tobacco, Richweed, Squawweed Salt heliotrope, Seaside heliotrope In some parts of Blooms: Spring the West this species is called Quail Plant after the Attracts Butterflies birds that feed on its fruit. The Spanish name, Cola Native to the Continental US de Mico, meaning monkey tail, describes the coiled flower cluster. Native to the US Ageratina jucunda Pityopsis graminifolia Hammock Snakeroot Silkgrass Blooms: Mid-Summer Florida Native Florida Native Passiflora suberosa Glandularia tampensis Corky stemmed passion flower is the larval host plant for gulf Tampa Verbena fritillary, julia and zebra longwing butterflies who linger Blooms: Year-round around this vine, searching for new growth to lay their eggs. Nectar source for many butterflies. Birds will visit this vine to eat the tiny dark purple fruits. Blooms: Intermittent Endangered endemic species. Florida Native Erigeron vernus Erigeron quercifolius Early Whitetop Fleabane Oak-Leaf Fleabane Blooms: Year-round Blooms: Year-round Florida Native Florida Native Ruellia caroliniensis Hypericum hypericoides Wild Petunia NATIVE BLUE St. Andrew’s Cross Blooms: Spring- Fall Blooms: Year-round Florida Native Florida Native Helianthus angustifolius L. Monarda punctata Swamp sunflower BeeBalm, Spotted horsemint Blooms: Spring-Summer Blooms: Summer-Fall Florida Native Florida Native Florida Native attracts hummingbirds Polypremum procumbens Commelina erecta L. Rustweed, Juniper leaf Whitemouth dayflower, Widow's tears, Day flower, White-mouth dayflower Blooms:Year-round Blooms: Year-round Florida Native (growing wild) Florida Native (growing wild) Portulaca pilosa Stylosanthes hamata Kiss-Me-Quick southern pencilflower, Cheesytoes Blooms: Year-round Blooms: Year-round Florida Native (growing wild) Florida Native (growing wild) Dyschoriste humistrata Verbena scabra Vahl Swamp twinflower, snake herb sandpaper vervain Blooms: Blooms: Spring (May ) to Fall Florida Native Florida Native Viola xprimulifolia Pluchea odorata Primrose leaf violet Camphorweed Blooms: Spring Blooms: late Summer - Fall Florida Native Florida Native Lindernia grandiflora Carphephorus odoratissimus [Ilysanthes grandiflora] Deer Tongue / Pineland Purple Blue Moneywort Savannah False Blooms: late Summer -Fall Pimpernel Florida Native Blooms: Year-round Florida Native Piloblephis rigida Solidago sempervirens Wild Pennyroyal, Florida Pennyroyal Seaside goldenrod Blooms: late Summer - Fall Blooms: late Summer - Fall Florida Native Florida Native Rudbeckia fulgida Solidago “Little Lemon” Black-eyed Susan Compact Goldenrod Blooms: late Summer - Fall Attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds Florida Native Blooms: late Summer – Fall DOES NOT CAUSE ALLERGIES It is ragweed that causes allergies Phlox pilosa Symphyotrichum walteri Downy phlox Walter’s Aster Blooms: Year-round Blooms: Spring Florida Native Florida Native Penstemon australis Penstemon laevigatus Pink beardtounge Eastern Smooth Beardtongue Blooms: Spring Blooms: Spring Florida Native Florida Native Rudbeckia lanciniata Amorpha herbacea Cutleaf coneflower Clusterspike leadplant Blooms: Spring Blooms: Spring-Summer Florida Native Florida Native Nemastylis floridana Berlandiera pumlia Celestial lily / Fall Ixia Soft greeneyes Blooms: Fall Blooms: Summer-Fall Florida Native Florida Native Eurybia eryngiifolius Asclepias tuberosa Coyote thistle aster Butterfly Milkweed Blooms: Fall Florida Native Florida Native Special thanks to Craig Huegel of Hawthorn Hill Native Wildflower and Rare Plant Nursery for the use of his photos on this page only. Dyschoriste oblongifolia Stokesia laevis Twinflower, as the name implies, has paired lavender Stokes Aster flowers that occur throughout the year; the heaviest bloom One of the best herbaceous perennials for attracting is in May. butterflies. Florida Native Native to the southeastern US Rondeletia odorata Acmella oppositifolia Fragrant Panama rose Oppositeleaf spotflower Blooms: Summer-Fall Florida Native Originally from Cuba Teucrium canadense Physostegia purpurea Germander, Hairy germander, Wood sage eastern false dragonhead Bloom Color: White , Pink Blooms: May , Jun , Jul , Aug Florida Native Native to U.S. Micromeria brownei var. pilosicula Ocimum campechianum Ground Ivy, Browne’s Savory Balm, basil, basilique, duppy basil, fon basin, fonbouysa, mosquito bush Florida Native Native to the Lesser Antilles Coreopsis gladiata Heliotropium angiospermum coastal plain tickseed Scorpiontail Heliotrope a short-lived perennial or annual that relies on its large seed Bloom: Continuous production to persist over time. Likes moist soil. Blooms: Fall Florida Native Florida Native Salmolus ebracteatus Zamia pumila water pimpernel, limewater brookweed Coontie . called the “living fossil”, this cycad may well be the most primitive plant on earth. Today, Florida Native - Endangered coontie is protected and collecting