A lemon bacopa flower above the plant’s rounded, clasping leaves. Photo: Alex Abair, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Bacopa caroliniana, known as Lemon Bacopa,
Florida betony in flower in a mowed, sunny field. Most gardeners meet it exactly like this, as a fast-spreading lawn weed in spring. Photo: Lauren
A garden planting of Tampa mock vervain in bloom, with rounded clusters of pink-purple flowers above coarsely toothed leaves. Photo: United States Botanic Garden, via
Leavenworth’s goldenrod in full bloom in Florida, with its typical arching, one-sided flower plumes. Photo: cwarneke, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0) Solidago leavenworthii, Leavenworth’s Goldenrod, is
Fewflower milkweed in bloom in Everglades National Park, Florida. Each slender stalk ends in a small, open cluster of red-orange flowers. Photo: Everglades NPS, via
Ashe’s calamint in bloom. Each pale lavender flower has a broad lower lip marked with purple spots that guide bees to the nectar. Photo: Alex
A dense mat of saltwort at the edge of mangroves near Flamingo, Everglades National Park, Florida. Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA
A mature scrub palmetto in Florida scrub, with its stemless clump of fan leaves and a branched flower stalk in the center. Photo: Douglas Goldman,
A head of Feay’s prairie clover on a dewy morning at Juno Dunes Natural Area, Palm Beach County, Florida. Each head is a tight ball
Beach creeper in flower at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, Florida. The slender pink tubes end in curled-back lobes and protruding white anthers. Photo: Scott
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