Pineland golden trumpet in bloom in a South Florida pineland. Photo: Jay Horn, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Angadenia berteroi, the Pineland Golden Trumpet,
Peppervine in fruit. The berries ripen unevenly from green through pink and red to glossy purple-black, so one cluster often shows several colors. Photo: USchick,
A fruiting branch of Mexican alvaradoa. The hanging clusters of hairy, winged fruits are tan tinged with red or purple. Photo: Jim Conrad, via Wikimedia
A tropical royalblue waterlily flower in Big Cypress National Preserve, Collier County, Florida. Wild Florida plants often have very pale, bluish-white petals. Photo: Jay Horn,
Feay’s palafox at Lake June-in-Winter Scrub State Park, Highlands County, on the Lake Wales Ridge. The heads have no rays; each “petal” is a separate
A stand of Mohr’s coneflower in bloom in a Florida wet pine savanna. The long, almost leafless stalks lift the flower heads well above the
A single nodding flower on a young netted pawpaw at Frenchman’s Forest Natural Area, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Photo: Bob Peterson, via Wikimedia Commons (CC
Woolly pawpaw flowers hanging from a bare branch in early spring, before the leaves have fully expanded. Photo: Alex Abair, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY
Lopsided Indiangrass in full bloom near Punta Gorda, Charlotte County, Florida, in October. The narrow, nodding plumes carry their spikelets mostly on one side. Photo:
A healthy clump of southern wood fern in late summer at the Asheville Botanical Gardens, North Carolina, where it is grown well north of its
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