Right Plant & Right Place
Achieving a healthy, low-maintenance home landscape starts with putting the right plant in the right place. Select plants that match your site’s soil, light, water and climate conditions. Buy Florida native plants that welcome wildlife. Consider plant size when you make your purchase and aim for a diversity of trees, shrubs, groundcovers, and flowers. Once these plants are established, they’ll require little supplemental water, fertilizer or pesticides, saving you time and money. Help stop the spread of invasive plants by removing them from your yard.
The following guide can help you decide which plants are right for your landscape:
Full Sun |
Part Shade |
Shade |
Moist |
Butterfly Nectar |
Salt Tolerant |
Butterfly Host |
Must Have |
Bird Food |
Beach |
Humming Bird |
Edible |
| Vines and Trellis Bloomers | Aquatics |
| Bay Bean |
Alligator Flag |
| Beach Morning Glory |
Arrowhead |
| Carolina Jessamine |
Blue Flag Iris |
| Coral Honeysuckle |
Common Water Weed |
| Corkystem Passionvine |
Duck Potato |
| Crossvine |
Duckweed |
| Dutchman's Pipe |
Fragrant Water Lily |
| Jacquemontia |
Giant Bulrush |
| Maypop Passionvine |
Lemon Bacopa |
| Railroad Vine |
Lizard's Tail |
| Wild Allamanda |
Pickerel Weed |
| Scarlet Hibiscus |
|
| Grasses | Soft Rush |
| Dwarf Fakahatchee |
Spatterdock |
| Fakahatchee |
Spider Lily |
| Muhly Grass |
Spikerush |
| Elliot’s Love Grass |
Water Hemlock |
| Sand Cord Grass |
Water Hyssop |
| Sea Oats |
Yellow Canna |
| Palms and Palm Like | Ferns |
| Cabbage Palm |
Bracken Fern |
| Florida Thatch Palm |
Cinnamon Fern |
| Green Saw Palmetto |
Giant Sword Fern |
| Paurotis Palm |
Leather Fern |
| Silver Saw Palmetto |
Netted Chain Fern |
| Royal Fern |
|
| Swamp Fern |
| Wildflowers and Groundcovers | |
| Beach Verbena |
Pencilflower |
| Beach Morning Glory |
Pennyroyal |
| Bigelowia |
Pineland Lantana |
| Black-eyed Susan |
Porterweed |
| Blanket Flower |
Quailberry |
| Blazing Star |
Railroad Vine |
| Blue Curls |
Rouge Plant |
| Blue-eyed Grass |
Scorpiontail |
| Bushy Aster |
Seacoast Marsh Elder |
| Costal Ambrosia |
Sea Lavender |
| Christmas Berry |
Sea Oxeye Daisy |
| Climbing Aster |
Sea Purslane |
| Coontie |
Seaside Ambrosia |
| Corky Stem Passionvine |
Seaside Gentian |
| Dune Sunflower |
Seaside Goldenrod |
| Elephant's Foot |
Spanish Bayonette |
| False Mint |
Spiderwort |
| False Nettle |
St. John's Wort |
| Florida Greeneyes |
Starry Rosinweed |
| Florida Paintbrush |
Stoke’s Aster |
| Florida Peperomia |
Sunshine Mimosa |
| Golden Creeper |
Tampa Verbena |
| Gopher Apple |
Tickseed, Coreopsis |
| Horsemint |
Tropical Sage |
| Inkberry |
Tropical Scullcap |
| Ironweed |
Twin Flower |
| Milkweed (not native) |
White Lantana |
| Maypop Passionvine |
Wild Petunia |
| Mist Flower |
Wood Sage |
| Native Plumbago |
Yellow Coneflower |
| Partridge Pea |
Yellowtop |
| Shrubs | |
| Bahama Cassia |
Marlberry |
| Bay Cedar |
Mrs. Shiller's Delight |
| Beauty Berry WHITE |
Myrsine |
| Beautyberry |
Necklace Pod |
| Bird Pepper |
Possum Haw |
| Bloodberry |
Privet Cassia |
| Buttonbush |
Red Stopper |
| Climbing Aster |
Red-tip Cocoplum |
| Dog Hobble |
Redberry Stopper |
| Dwarf Firebush |
Rusty Lyonia |
| Dwarf Golden Dewdrop |
Salt Bush |
| Dwarf Wax Myrtle |
Seven Year Apple |
| Dwarf Wild Coffee |
Shiny Lyonia |
| Dwarf Yaupon Holly |
Silver Buttonwood |
| Elderberry |
Simpson's Stopper |
| Fetterbush |
Snowberry |
| Fiddlewood |
Softleaf Wild Coffee |
| Firebush |
Spanish Stopper |
| Florida Lilac |
Varnish Leaf |
| Florida privet |
Walter's Viburnum |
| Gallberry |
Wax Myrtle |
| Garberia |
White Indigo Berry |
| Golden Dewdrop |
White Stopper |
| Green Buttonwood |
Wild Coffee |
| Horizontal Cocoplum |
Yellow Anise |
| Locustberry |
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| Trees | |
| Autograph or Pitch Apple Tree |
Pond cypress |
| Bahama Strongbark |
Popash |
| Bald Cypress |
Possum Haw |
| Black Bead |
Red Bay |
| Black Ironwood |
Red Mangrove |
| Blolly |
Red Maple |
| Cinnamon Bark |
Red Mulberry |
| Cinnecord |
Sand Live Oak |
| Coral Bean |
Satinleaf |
| Dahoon holly |
Seagrape |
| East Palatka Holly |
Seven Year Apple |
| Florida Lilac |
Slash Pine |
| Gumbo limbo |
Slash Pine Southern "Densa" |
| Jamaican Caper |
Soapberry |
Jamaican Dogwood  |
South Ridge Holly |
| Laurel Oak |
Southern Red Cedar |
| Lignum Vitae |
Spicewood |
| Live Oak |
Strangler Fig |
| Loblolly Bay |
Sweet Acacia |
| Locucstberry |
Sweet Bay Magnolia |
| Longleaf Pine | Sweet Gum |
| Mahogany |
Sycamore |
| Mastic |
Varnish Leaf |
| Myrtle Oak |
Virginia Willow |
| Orange Geiger |
Wild Lime |
| Paradise Tree |
Wild Tamarind  |
| Persimmon |
Winged Elm |
| Pigeon Plum |
Yaupon Holly |
| Pigmy Fringetree |
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| Pignut Hickory |
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| Pond Apple |
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