Terry Greene (Class of 2019) asked about this tiny blue-flowered plant that we saw at Treasure Shores Park growing amid beach dune sunflower (Helianthus debilis). It is a dayflower, most likely common dayflower (Commelina communis). Each flower lasts only a…
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Partridge, Quail or Bee Pea?
Partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata) is full of flowers along Oslo Road, at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, at Treasure Shores Park (where the pictures above was taken), and throughout Indian River County mostly in sunny, dry places. Supposedly, European explorers…
Salty Solution?
Mackenzie Bell, a graduate student at the University of Florida Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants, hoped to find a salty solution to control Brazilian pepper, (Schinus terebinthifolia), a pervasive and pernicious exotic pest plant that infests hundreds of thousands…
Weeds of Wednesday: Pretty in Pink or NOT ?
Terry Greene (Class of 2019) spotted this pretty pink lantana flowering at Treasure Shores Park on our walk on 7-13-2019. It mostly likely is the lantana (Lantana strigocamara), also know as shrub verbena. This plant has been named a category…
