Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Coral ardisia is a striking but invasive plant. The Osprey Acres Stormwater Park and Nature Preserve, unfortunately, is home to a thriving population in its shady hammock areas, as seen below. Native to southeast Asia and introduced to Florida as…
Along Oslo Road - along with lyreleaf sage (Salvia lyrata) and narrowleaf blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium) - oakleaf fleabane (Erigeron quercifolius) is now full of flowers. The dime-sized flowers are held atop tall stalks (to +12') and, like nearly all…
Lyreleaf sage (Salvia lyrata) grows along roadsides including Oslo Road at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area along with narrowleaf blue-eyed grass. This perennial native wildflower grows from a basal rosette, seeds profusely, and will "fill in" an area if mowed…
You will find narrowleaf blue-eyed grass (Sisirynchium angustifolium) growing along moist roadsides including along Oslo Road near the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA). It's not a grass, though. Common names often are confusing. The foliage of this clumping perennial native…
