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Florida

Florida, United States of America: 4 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

Landscape and climate

Four ecoregions reach Florida and they are unusually distinct from each other. The Southeast US conifer savannas cover the panhandle and the north, the Southeast US mixed woodlands and savannas the central peninsula, and both sit in the Nature Imperiled tier. South of them the Everglades flooded grasslands hold the interior, a flooded grassland and savanna system, and the Bahamian-Antillean mangroves fringe the southern coasts. The state therefore spans temperate pine country in the north and genuinely tropical conditions in the south, which is why Florida advice so often contradicts itself. The ecoregion you are in decides whether you are gardening with longleaf pine and wiregrass or with mangrove-edge and subtropical species.

Native plants of Florida

Species in the catalog recorded as native to Florida, each with its climate-fit grade and planting guidance.

Adam's needle American basswood American beautyberry American elderberry American holly American hophornbeam American persimmon American plum American sweetgum American sycamore Annabelle hydrangea Arrowwood viburnum Bald cypress Big bluestem Black cherry Black oak Black tupelo (black gum)Black walnut Black willow Black-eyed Susan Bloodroot Boneset Boxelder Butterfly weed Cardinal flower Carolina allspice (sweetshrub)Chestnut oak Chinkapin oak Christmas fern Common blue violet Common hackberry Common ninebark Common witch hazel Common yarrow Cutleaf coneflower Dense blazing star Dwarf fothergilla Eastern cottonwood Eastern prickly pear Eastern red cedar Eastern redbud Florida torreya Flowering dogwood Garden pepper Golden alexanders Green hawthorn Groundnut Hardy hibiscus Honey locust Indian grass Indian pink Inkberry Lady fern Lanceleaf coreopsis Largeflower tickseed Little bluestem Loblolly pine Mapleleaf viburnum Mayapple Maypop (purple passionflower)Mountain laurel New York ironweed Northern spicebush Oakleaf hydrangea Orange coneflower Pagoda dogwood Pawpaw Pecan Plains coreopsis Possumhaw Possumhaw viburnum Post oak Red maple Red mulberry River birch River oats Sassafras Side-oats grama Silky dogwood Silver maple Southern live oak Southern magnolia Southern red oak Sunchoke Swamp milkweed Swamp sunflower Sweet Joe-Pye weed Sweetbay magnolia Switchgrass Threadleaf coreopsis Trumpet honeysuckle Tulip tree (yellow poplar)Virginia iris Virginia sweetspire White oak Whorled milkweed Wild geranium Wild lupine Willow oak Winterberry Yaupon

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United States of America

Ecoregions here

Bahamian-Antillean mangroves Everglades flooded grasslands Southeast US conifer savannas Southeast US mixed woodlands and savannas