Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Piedmont blacksenna (Seymeria pectinata) has "returned" to the south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (SORCA). 2017 is when this partially parasitic plant proved prolific at the trail entrance in response to trail widening. A few weak individuals were present the following…
The partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata) at south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area was ablaze with flowers when we took a very small-group walk to look for Florida butterfly orchids (Encylcia tampensis) on June 27, 2020. Bees pollinate this native annual via…
Seaside heliotrope (Helitropium curassavicum), a.k.a. salt heliotrope, is a halophyte (plant of salty spaces) in Florida, but this wide-ranging plant inhabits moist places throughout the U.S. to central Canada to Argentina. It sometimes can be invasive in Africa, Asia, Australia,…
This honeybee (Apis mellifera) is attracted to the pale pink flowers of beautyberry (Callicarpa americana), and its corbicula (pollen basket) is laden with yellow pollen. The genus name, Callicarpa, derived from Latin, means beautiful (calli) fruit (carpa). Its magenta berries…
