Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Terry Greene (Class of 2019) asked about this tiny blue-flowered plant that we saw at Treasure Shores Park growing amid beach dune sunflower (Helianthus debilis). It is a dayflower, most likely common dayflower (Commelina communis). Each flower lasts only a…
Partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata) is full of flowers along Oslo Road, at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, at Treasure Shores Park (where the pictures above was taken), and throughout Indian River County mostly in sunny, dry places. Supposedly, European explorers…
Terry Greene (Class of 2019) spotted this pretty pink lantana flowering at Treasure Shores Park on our walk on 7-13-2019. It mostly likely is the lantana (Lantana strigocamara), also know as shrub verbena. This plant has been named a category…
Snowberry or milkberry (Chioccoca alba) is a common sprawling hammock shrub that is pictured above on our 7-13-2019 trip to Treasure Shores Park along with wild coffee (Psychtoria nervosa). Like wild coffee, snowberry is at its best in light shade…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 