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Bahama senna is evergreen blooming throughout the year. Blossoms are yellow. This is host plant to many Sulphur Butterflies including Cloudless Sulphur, Sleepy Orange, and Orange Barred Sulphur Butterflies. NATIVE 

Beauty Berry begins with pink blooms lasting until frost or freeze. The berries soon develop turning purple by Fall. Birds love them and they offer a great Fall and Winter food source. Host plant for Spring Azure Butterfly and Snowberry Clear Wing Moth. NATIVE

Calamint is a tough evergreen plant that goes into heaviest bloom time in the Spring. It will continue to bloom throughout Summer and Fall. Calamint leaves are an intensely aromatic mint. NATIVE

Coontie is Florida's native cycad. This tough plant grows in full sun to shade and wet to very dry conditions. Host plant to the endangered Atala Butterfly. (Atala populations have now been spotted in Daytona and Miami). NATIVE

 A miniature red hibiscus flower only one inch long. This does well in moist soils. NATIVE 

Firebush offers beautiful color to the garden. Orange/Red blooms attract butterflies and hummingbirds. The fruit is black attracting many birds in the Fall. NATIVE Host plant to the Pluto Sphinx Moth.

Hamelia patens, var calusa is a native Firebush bred to a smaller size reaching 4 to 8 ft. tall. Firebush is the number one most visited pollinator in the state. Attracts hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees. A must in the Florida Native Garden. The leaves remain a darker shade of red year-round and the blooms are brighter red-orange flowers. In the Fall the fruits attract many types of birds. A plant to be enjoyed year-round. Host plant to the Pluto Sphinx Moth.

These are an heirloom variety of Penta. They grow four to five feet tall. These are perennial as well. Available in pink or red. Non- native

This vine needs to be trellised. It reaches lengths of 25 feet. The purple blooms are scented and the fruit is edible. Purple passionflower is larval host plant for numerous butterfly species, including Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) and Zebra Longwing (Heliconius charithonia), the state butterfly of Florida. It also is host to the Crimson Patch Longwing (Heliconius erato), Red-banded hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops)and Julia Heliconian (Dryas iulia) butterflies. Pollinated by bees.  NATIVE

Scorpiontail has tiny white blooms that offer a nectar source for some of our tiniest pollinators. Two feet tall to five feet wide. Re-seeds. Nectar plant for multiple butterflies. 

Large red blooms top stems reaching 4 to 8 feet tall and 2 to 4 feet wide. This hibiscus prefers a moist to damp soil. Larval host of Gray Hairstreak, Painted Lady Butterfly, Common Checkered Skipper and Tropical Checkered Skipper butterflies and four moths: Pearly Wood Nymph, Yellow Scallop Moth, Io Moth, and Delightful Bird-Dropping Moths. Attracts butterflies and  native bees (including the Rose-mallow Bee which is a Hibiscus specialist), beetles, etc. (Information from Florida Native  NATIVE