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Cornus urbinianaRose, syn of subsp. urbiniana. Cornus florida, the flowering dogwood, is a species of flowering tree in the family Cornaceae native to eastern North America and northern Mexico. An endemic population once spanned from southernmost coastal Maine south to northern Florida and west to the Mississippi River. [ 4 ]
Ficus aurea, commonly known as the Florida strangler fig (or simply strangler fig), golden fig, or higuerón, [ 4 ] is a tree in the family Moraceae that is native to the U.S. state of Florida, the northern and western Caribbean, southern Mexico and Central America south to Panama. [ 5 ] The specific epithet aurea was applied by English ...
Although Carya floridana can grow to the height of 25 m (80 ft), most specimens are shrubs 3–5 m tall, with many small trunks. The leaves are 20–30 cm long, pinnate, with three to seven leaflets, each leaflet 4–10 cm long and 2–4 cm broad, with a coarsely toothed margin.
Larrea tridentatais an evergreenshrubgrowing to 1 to 3 m (3 to 10 ft) tall, rarely 4 m (13 ft). The light gray stems of the plant bear resinous, dark green leaveswith two oppositelanceolateleaflets joined at the base, with a deciduous awnbetween them, each leaflet 7 to 18 mm (1⁄4to 11⁄16 in) long and 4 to 8.5 mm (5⁄32to 11⁄32 in) broad.
The longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) is a pine species native to the Southeastern United States, found along the coastal plain from East Texas to southern Virginia, extending into northern and central Florida. [3] In this area it is also known as "yellow pine" or "long leaf yellow pine", although it is properly just one out of a number of ...
The flowers are small and fragrant, with five pale purple or lilac petals, growing in clusters. The fruit is a drupe, marble-sized, light yellow at maturity, hanging on the tree all winter, and gradually becoming wrinkled and almost white. The Melia azedarach tree has a short lifespan of a maximum of 20 years. [1]
Smilax sprengelii Kunth. Smilax rotundifolia, also known as roundleaf greenbrier[2] or common greenbrier, is a woody vine native to the southeastern and eastern United States and eastern Canada. [1][3][4] It is a common and conspicuous part of the natural forest ecosystems in much of its native range. The leaves are glossy green, petioled ...
Washingtonia filifera, the desert fan palm, [4] California fan palm, or California palm, [5][6][7] is a flowering plant in the palm family Arecaceae, native to the far southwestern United States and Baja California, Mexico. Growing to 15–20 m (49–66 ft) tall by 3–6 m (10–20 ft) broad, it is an evergreen monocot with a tree -like growth ...