Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Hurricane Irma coupled with the disturbance associated with the extensive professional invasive plant control work at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) has allowed jack-in-the bush (Chromolaena odorata) to display its weediness dramatically. This subtropical plant, a member of the daisy…
Goldenrod (Solidago sp.) gets a bad rap. The pollen of goldenrod is too large to be a human allergen, but goldenrod often blooms at the same time as ragweed (Ambrosia sp.), the real culprit. Nonetheless, many people consider goldenrod to…
The simpsons stopper (Myrcianthes fragrans) in the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) parking lot is full of flowers -- even more flowers than when it bloomed in the spring. Tropical plants sometimes will bloom a second time, unlike temperate plants…
Growing in the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) parking lot amongst wild coffee (Psychotria nervosa) and last's week's Wednesday "weed", beggarticks (Bidens alba), is what some folks call tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica). Other common names include scarlet milkweed, Mexican milkweed, bloodflower,…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 