Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Sweetscent (Pluchea odorata) is a native wildflower of moist places (brackish or fresh) that has a variety of other common names including camphorweed, stinkweed, salt marsh fleabane, sourbush, and cattle-tongue. Many of its common names refer to the sweet-spicey-musky fragrance…
Beginning in the fall of 1998, the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory (FMEL) began to offer a Volunteer Nature Stewardship Class for the adjacent Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA). In the early days the class was underwritten by a grant from…
Love vine (Cassytha filiformis) is used in love potions. It purportedly is an aphrodisiac, contains a good bit of caffeine, and has a root beer-like taste. Other common names for this hemi-parasitic vine include woevine, laurel dodder, devil's gut, and…
Carolina sealavender (Limonium carolinianum) is a perennial herb of salt marshes from Florida to Texas to Quebec to Labrador/Newfoundland. It blooms throughout the year in southern central Florida and South Florida and in spring/summer in cooler climates. At the Toni…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 