A broad mat of baybean spreading across the upper beach in front of the dunes. Its runners help trap blowing sand and build the foredune.
A colony of beachberry spreading over sand a few yards from the beach at Honeymoon Island State Park, Dunedin, Florida. Photo: Look at My Bloomers,
A nodding maroon flower of dwarf pawpaw at Faver-Dykes State Park, St. Johns County, Florida, in May. Photo: Pam Kleinsasser, via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0)
A dense smooth strongbark shrub growing at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, Florida. Photo: David J. Stang, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Bourreria cassinifolia,
Variableleaf sunflowers blooming in October in a wet savanna near Cape San Blas, Gulf County, Florida. Photo: Scott Allen Davis, via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0)
Smallflower pawpaw flowering in early spring in dry upland woods at Poe Creek Forest, Pickens County, South Carolina. The flowers open as the new leaves
Florida prickly pear in bloom in May near Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Florida. Photo: Jay Horn, via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0) Opuntia austrina, known
White arrow arum in bloom in Florida. Its open, snow-white spathe is the easiest way to tell it from the common green arrow arum. Photo:
Little floatingheart flowering in a pond at Hopkinton, Rhode Island. The small floating leaves are often mottled with purple, and in fall many of them
Aquatic milkweed in bloom at Big Hammock State Park, Georgia. Photo: gailhampshire, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Asclepias perennis, called Aquatic Milkweed by USDA
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