Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
The City of Vero Beach calls itself the Hibiscus City and holds a Hibiscus Festival each spring in honor of the non-native hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis), a common and reliable landscape plant that comes in a variety of colors. Our native…
Mary Ester and George Bollis (Class of 2020) visited T.M. Goodwin Waterfowl Management Area located on the east side of the St. Johns River in southern Brevard County. There they photographed Virginia saltmarsh mallow (Kosteletzyka pentacarpos), which we see at the…
The star of our field trip to the Indian River Lagoon Greenway on 8/11/2018 undoubtedly was the lovely lindenleaf rosemallow (Hibiscus furcellatus) pictured above. Also known as sleepy hibiscus, this member of the mallow family, Malvaceae, is native to the…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 