Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Florida sensitive brier (Mimosa quadrivalvis) is not your typical pea. It is thorny, very thorny. To be technically correct, it is prickly. Prickles grow from the epidermis of the plant and, as a result, can grow anywhere on a plant.…
Donna Winter (Class of 2016) shared the wonderful photos of mangrove rubbervine (Rhabdadenia biflora) shown above. This high-climbing, very vigorous vine clambers over mangroves and other vegetation, so some folks describe it as weedy. Under moist conditions, It can colonize…
Plant species matter! Blue porterweed (Stachytarpheta jamaicensis) is native to Florida, according the Florida Plant Atlas. Nettleleaf velvetberry (Stachytarpheta cayennensis) is listed as a category #2 invasive pest plant by the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council (FLEPP) and was, until…
Fran Robinson (Class of 2018) sent this photo of a gall on her white crownbeard (Verbesina virginica) plant. This gall likely is the handiwork of a gall midge (Neolasioptera verbesinae). Its species name, verbesinae, speaks to its fidelity to the genus Verbesina.…
