Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Plant names can be problematic. Common names are not standardized. And, botanists change botanical names. Cindy Hersh (Class of 2016) on our walk at the Barrier Island Sanctuary and Education Center on 2/11/2024 pointed out a wispy & lovely wildflower.…
Yellowtop (Flaveria linearis) flowers each fall behind the beach dunes at Sebastian Inlet State Park. It is shown below in 2013 growing between the roadway and a swath of sea oxeye daisy (Borrichia frutescens). Yellowtop generally flowers in the late…
When we visited south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area on 6-18-2022, we saw blooming Florida butterfly orchids (Encyclia tampensis), the focus of our walk, as well as other plants with flowers and/or fruits, including ... Faey's milkweed (Asclepias faeyi) - an…
Hollies, we expect, to have red berries at Christmas-time. Gallberry (Ilex glabra) is a holly that has black fruits. The fruits often persist throughout the winter and into spring. Ultimately, they are eaten by migratory birds. When we visited Osprey…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 