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FIU Nature Preserve Plant Inventory List

A visual guide to the Plant Inventory list created for the Florida International University Nature Preserve and updated in 2016. This includes trees, ferns, airplants, and understory growth--both native and non-native. Hopefully this helps in your exploration of the preserve and helps give a ...more ↓

Cuban jute 1
Sida rhombifolia
Spinyhead Sida 2
Sida acuta
Saffron Plum
Sideroxylon celastrinum
False Mastic 3
Sideroxylon foetidissimum
Willow Bustic 4
Sideroxylon salicifolium
narrow-leaved blue-eyed grass 5
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
Paradise Tree 6
Simarouba amara
Earleaf Greenbrier 7
Smilax auriculata
saw greenbrier 8
Smilax bona-nox
giant goldenrod 9
Solidago gigantea
Leavenworth's goldenrod
Solidago leavenworthii
Solidago odora chapmanii
Wand Goldenrod 10
Solidago stricta
Sophora tomentosa occidentalis
Woodland false buttonweed 11
Spermacoce remota
buttonweed 12
Spermacoce assurgens
shrubby false buttonweed 13
Spermacoce verticillata
trailing daisy 14
Sphagneticola trilobata
Pink Weed 15
Spigelia anthelmia
Lace-lipped Ladies' Tresses 10
Spiranthes laciniata
Sporobolus indicus pyramidalis
Blue Porterweed 16
Stachytarpheta jamaicensis
Sweet Shaggytuft 17
Stenandrium dulce
Caribbean Stylo 18
Stylosanthes hamata
Saint Augustine grass 14
Stenotaphrum secundatum
West Indian Mahogany 18
Swietenia mahogani
Pink Trumpet-tree 4
Tabebuia heterophylla
sea hibiscus 19
Hibiscus tiliaceus
West Indian Lilac 20
Tetrazygia bicolor
Northern Needleleaf Airplant 21
Tillandsia balbisiana
cardinal airplant 20
Tillandsia fasciculata
Twisted Airplant 15
Tillandsia flexuosa
Spanish moss 22
Tillandsia usneoides
small ballmoss 10
Tillandsia recurvata
spreading airplant 23
Tillandsia utriculata
Moses-in-the-cradle 24
Tradescantia spathacea
Trema micrantha 25
poison ivy 26
Toxicodendron radicans
southern bulrush 13
Typha domingensis
Tridax daisy 27
Tridax procumbens
Florida Ironweed 28
Vernonia blodgettii
Fourleaf Vetch 29
Vicia acutifolia
Wild Cowpea 7
Vigna luteola
muscadine 30
Vitis rotundifolia
Sleepy Morning 31
Waltheria indica
Oriental false hawksbeard 32
Youngia japonica
trailing daisy 14
Sphagneticola trilobata
Lime Prickly-ash 33
Zanthoxylum fagara
Zoysia matrella 34

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