S.FL. Native Shrubs/Small Trees Flashcards
Wild sage
Lantana involucrata
4-6’
Fruit eating Birds
Bird Pepper
Capsicum annum var. glabrisculum
18”
Edible
Good for ground feeding birds
American beautyberry
Callicarpa americana
5-6’
Fruit eating birds, mockingbirds
Firebush
Hamelia patens
7-8’
Hummingbirds, butterflies
Little strongback
Bourreria cassinifolia
7’
Hummingbirds, butterflies, fruit eating birds, insects, warblers
Necklace pod
Sophora tomentosa var. truncata
5-10’
Hummingbirds, butterflies, insects, warblers
Marlberry
Ardisia escallonioides
Myrsine
Myrsine cubana
Shiny-leaved wild coffee
Psycotria nervosa
Shortleaf wild coffee
Psychotria sulzneri
Florida silver palm
Coccothrinax argentata
Saw palmetto
Serenoa repens
Inkberry
Scaevola plumieri
3-5’ broad shrub
Sun, coastal
Food, cover
Bay cedar
Suriana maritima
6-10’ shrub
Coastal, Sun
Larval mallow scrub-hairstreak, martial scrub-hairstreak
Nectar great southern white,julia, martial scrub-hairsteak, obscure
Bahama senna
Senna mexicana var. chapmanii
2-4’
Pinerockland, Rockland hammock
Larval cloudless sulphur, sleepy orange, orange-barred sulphur