Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
People display diversity & so do plants in Nature (as opposed to intentional cultivation). Donna Winter (Class of 2016) shared two photos that demonstrate this diversity. She took the picture above of the flower of a Faey's palafox (Palafoxia faeyi)…
Our Florida state butterfly, the zebra longwing loves it, but lots of gardeners do not. It is common beggarticks (Bidens alba). Common names for this plant are about as common as this plant and include Spanish needles, butterfly needles, romerillo,…
We saw two "asters", daisy-like plants, on our visit to Toni Robinson Waterfront Trail (TRWT) on 12-8-2019 led by Terry Greene (Class of 2019). One of them was the prevalent and perennial climbing aster (Symphyotrichum carolinianum), shown above. Once known…
Christmasberry, Carolina wolfberry, Carolina desert-thorn, and creeping wolfberry are among the many common names given to this red-berried plant of coastal places. A member of the member of the nightshade family, Solanaceae, Christmasberry (Lycium carolinianum), as we will call it,…
