Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
False indigo, bastard indigo, bastard false indigo, and leadplant are among the many common names for Amorpha fruticosa, a plant found in nearly every state -- and throughout Florida -- in moist places. We saw this plant in flower when…
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Rough hedgehyssop (Sophronanthe hispida) is a tiny perennial plant that grows in dry pine flatwoods in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. It is endemic to the coastal plain of the southeastern U.S. Look carefully to find this white-flowered plant growing…
Woodsgrass (Oplismenus setarius) is a native grass that grows in the "woods". It prefers shaded, moist places and thrives under the thick canopy of live oaks (Quercus virginiana) at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. Some botanists refer to it as Oplismenus…
Last year this giant land crab (Cardisoma guanhumi) decided to check out "higher ground" and clambered up the railing to our first floor. Also known as the Great Atlantic land crab, these semi-terrestrial crabs live in burrows -- crab holes…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 