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MatBio: COASTAL and ESTUARINE PLANTS - Matanzas Biodiversity

Welcome to our series of field guides - part of the MatBio Initiative at the Whitney Laboratory of Marine Bioscience! Our guides document the plant and animal species living in the Matanzas Basin, a coastal ecosystem stretching from St. Augustine to Palm Coast in NE Florida. They are works in ...more ↓

Red Mangrove 1
Rhizophora mangle
Paintedleaf 2
Poinsettia cyathophora
Spotted Sandmat 3
Chamaesyce maculata
Gulf Croton; Beach Tea 4
Croton punctatus
Croton glandulosus var. glandulosus 5
Croton glandulosus glandulosus
Limestone Sandmat 6
Chamaesyce blodgettii
Dixie Sandmat 2
Chamaesyce bombensis
Coastal Dune Sandmat 2
Chamaesyce cumulicola
Coastal Beach Sandmat 2
Chamaesyce mesembrianthemifolia
Seaside Sandmat 7
Chamaesyce polygonifolia
Prostrate Sandmat 8
Chamaesyce prostrata
Tread Softly, Finger Rot 9
Cnidoscolus stimulosus
Drummond's Leafflower 2
Phyllanthus abnormis
Gopher Apple 10
Licania michauxii

Edited by matbio and Jose Nunez

Photo Credits

  • 1. (c) Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil, some rights reserved (CC BY)
  • 2. (c) Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 3. (c) Rob Curtis, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by Rob Curtis
  • 4. (c) dogtooth77, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 5. (c) Matthew Herron, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Matthew Herron
  • 6. (c) Jason Hollinger, some rights reserved (CC BY)
  • 7. (c) Erin Faulkner, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Erin Faulkner
  • 8. (c) 2007 Luigi Rignanese, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
  • 9. (c) Arleigh Birchler, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Arleigh Birchler
  • 10. (c) Scott Zona, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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