Natives For Your Neighborhood Florida Statewide Plant List
Plants in Zip Code 33138
Below is a list of the cultivated native plants for this ZIP code. These plants, all within their natural ranges in this geographic area, are appropriate for use in landscaping here. By planting these native species, you can not only create a low-maintenance and sustainable landscape to enjoy, but you will also increase your contribution to the conservation and restoration of Florida’s environment. (For more on this, click here.)
To take gardening with natives a step further, you can learn about the native plant habitats that are appropriate for your area (click the back button to view a list of those habitats where available). As of 2022, these lists are available for South Florida and for some coastal upland ecosystems along the east coast. Where available, you can choose a habitat, and view a list of plants for that specific habitat or native ecosystem. This way, you can try your hand at restoring a native plant ecosystem in your yard or project site. Habitat lists also include some hard to grow natives and natives with narrow habitat requirements, such as strictly coastal or rare species, that may not be included on your main zip code list.
To view detailed information, including the horticultural requirements and landscaping uses of the plants as well as photos for most species, click on any plant name.
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Widely cultivated |
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Cultivated at native plant nurseries |
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Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Trees
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Bald cypress |
Taxodium distichum |
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Black ironwood |
Krugiodendron ferreum |
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Blolly, Beeftree |
Guapira discolor |
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Cabbage palm |
Sabal palmetto |
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Coastal Plain willow |
Salix caroliniana |
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Dahoon holly, Dahoon |
Ilex cassine |
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Gumbo-limbo |
Bursera simaruba |
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Inkwood, Butterbough |
Exothea paniculata |
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Lancewood |
Nectandra coriacea |
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Laurel oak, Diamond oak |
Quercus laurifolia |
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Paradisetree |
Simarouba glauca |
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Persimmon, Common persimmon |
Diospyros virginiana |
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Pigeonplum, Tietongue |
Coccoloba diversifolia |
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Pond cypress |
Taxodium ascendens |
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Pond-apple |
Annona glabra |
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Red mulberry |
Morus rubra |
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Satinleaf |
Chrysophyllum oliviforme |
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Simpson’s stopper, Twinberry |
Myrcianthes fragrans |
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South Florida slash pine |
Pinus elliottii var. densa |
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Strangler fig, Golden fig |
Ficus aurea |
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Sugarberry, Southern Hackberry |
Celtis laevigata |
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Swamp bay |
Persea palustris |
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Sweet-bay |
Magnolia virginiana |
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Virginia live oak |
Quercus virginiana |
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White stopper |
Eugenia axillaris |
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Wild mastic, False mastic |
Sideroxylon foetidissimum |
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Wild-lime, Lime prickly-ash |
Zanthoxylum fagara |
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Willow-bustic, White bully |
Sideroxylon salicifolium |
Shrubs and Woody Groundcovers
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American beautyberry |
Callicarpa americana |
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Coastalplain St. John’s-wort |
Hypericum brachyphyllum |
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Coastalplain staggerbush |
Lyonia fruticosa |
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Coco-plum |
Chrysobalanus icaco |
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Common buttonbush |
Cephalanthus occidentalis |
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Common snowberry, Milkberry |
Chiococca alba |
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Coralbean, Cherokee bean |
Erythrina herbacea |
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Elderberry, American elder |
Sambucus nigra subsp. canadensis |
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Fetterbush |
Lyonia lucida |
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Firebush |
Hamelia patens var. patens |
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Florida privet, Florida swampprivet |
Forestiera segregata |
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Gopher-apple |
Licania michauxii |
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Marlberry |
Ardisia escallonioides |
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Myrsine, Colicwood |
Myrsine cubana |
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Running oak |
Quercus pumila |
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Saltbush, Groundsel tree, Sea-myrtle |
Baccharis halimifolia |
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Saw palmetto |
Serenoa repens |
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Shiny blueberry |
Vaccinium myrsinites |
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Shiny-leaved wild coffee |
Psychotria nervosa |
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Shortleaf wild coffee |
Psychotria tenuifolia |
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Silverling |
Baccharis glomeruliflora |
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St. Andrew’s-cross |
Hypericum hypericoides |
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Swamp hibiscus, Swamp rosemallow |
Hibiscus grandiflorus |
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Wax myrtle, Southern Bayberry |
Myrica cerifera |
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White indigoberry |
Randia aculeata |
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Wild-sage, Buttonsage |
Lantana involucrata |
Vines and Climbers
Grasses, sedges, and rushes
Larges grasses, sedges, and rushes
Terrestrial wildflowers
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Alligatorlily |
Hymenocallis palmeri |
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American bluehearts |
Buchnera americana |
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Baldwin’s eryngo |
Eryngium baldwinii |
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Blackroot |
Pterocaulon pycnostachyum |
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Blue mistflower |
Conoclinium coelestinum |
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Bulltongue arrowhead, lance-leaved arrowhead |
Sagittaria lancifolia |
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Butterflyweed, Butterfly milkweed |
Asclepias tuberosa |
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Camphorweed |
Heterotheca subaxillaris |
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Candyweed, Showy milkwort |
Polygala violacea |
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Chapman’s goldenrod |
Solidago odora var. chapmanii |
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Clasping aster, Scaleleaf aster |
Symphyotrichum adnatum |
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Coastal plain hawkweed |
Hieracium megacephalon |
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Dense gayfeather, Blazing star |
Liatris spicata |
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Denseflower knotweed |
Polygonum glabrum |
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Dotted smartweed |
Polygonum punctatum |
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Fewflower milkweed |
Asclepias lanceolata |
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Florida hoarypea |
Tephrosia florida |
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Florida ironweed |
Vernonia blodgettii |
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Forked bluecurls |
Trichostema dichotomum |
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Glade lobelia |
Lobelia glandulosa |
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Green arum, Green arrow arum |
Peltandra virginica |
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Hairy dawnflower |
Stylisma villosa |
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Hammock snakeroot |
Ageratina jucunda |
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Leavenworth’s goldenrod |
Solidago leavenworthii |
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Leavenworth’s tickseed |
Coreopsis leavenworthii |
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Lemon hyssop, Lemon bacopa, Blue waterhyssop |
Bacopa caroliniana |
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Lizard’s tail |
Saururus cernuus |
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Mild water-pepper, Swamp smartweed |
Polygonum hydropiperoides |
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Musky mint, Clustered bushmint |
Hyptis alata |
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Narrowleaf blueeyed-grass |
Sisyrinchium angustifolium |
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Narrowleaf silkgrass |
Pityopsis graminifolia |
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Narrowleaf yellowtops |
Flaveria linearis |
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Narrow-leaved waterwillow |
Justicia angusta |
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Nash’s blueeyed-grass |
Sisyrinchium nashii |
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Oakleaf fleabane, Southern fleanbane |
Erigeron quercifolius |
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Partridge pea |
Chamaecrista fasciculata |
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Pickerelweed |
Pontederia cordata |
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Pine-hyacinth |
Clematis baldwinii |
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Pineland clustervine |
Jacquemontia curtissii |
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Pineland heliotrope |
Heliotropium polyphyllum |
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Pinepink |
Bletia purpurea |
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Pink purslane, Kiss-me-quick |
Portulaca pilosa |
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Pitted stripeseed |
Piriqueta cistoides subsp. caroliniana |
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Purple thistle |
Cirsium horridulum |
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Queensdelight |
Stillingia sylvatica |
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Rabbitbells |
Crotalaria rotundifolia |
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Rockland twinflower, Pineland snakeherb |
Dyschoriste angusta |
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Rose-of-Plymouth |
Sabatia stellaris |
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Rosy camphorweed |
Pluchea baccharis |
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Seaside goldenrod |
Solidago sempervirens |
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Skyflower |
Hydrolea corymbosa |
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Slender gayfeather, Blazing star |
Liatris gracilis |
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Southeastern sneezeweed |
Helenium pinnatifidum |
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Swamp milkweed |
Asclepias incarnata |
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Swamp-lily, Seven-sisters, String-lily |
Crinum americanum |
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Sweet Shaggytuft, Pinklet |
Stenandrium dulce |
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Sweetscent |
Pluchea odorata |
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Tea-blinkum, Sanddune cinchweed |
Pectis glaucescens |
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Thickleaf wild petunia |
Ruellia succulenta |
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Tropical-puff |
Neptunia pubescens |
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Turkey tangle fogfruit, Capeweed, Frogfruit |
Phyla nodiflora |
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Walter’s groundcherry |
Physalis walteri |
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Wand goldenrod |
Solidago stricta |
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Water dropwort, Water cowbane |
Tiedemannia filiformis |
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Water hyssop, Herb-of-grace |
Bacopa monnieri |
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White lobelia |
Lobelia paludosa |
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Whitemouth dayflower |
Commelina erecta |
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Whitetassels |
Dalea carnea var. carnea |
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Whorled milkweed |
Asclepias verticillata |
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Wild pennyroyal |
Piloblephis rigida |
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Wild-coco |
Eulophia alta |
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Wood sage, Canadian germander |
Teucrium canadense |
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Yellow colicroot |
Aletris lutea |
Large terrestrial wildflowers
Other terrestrial groundcovers
Ferns and similar
Large ferns
Floating and submerged aquatic herbs
Epiphytes
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