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…
Just a glance at the pale pink flowers of Virginia saltmarsh mallow (Kosteletzyka pentacorpos) tell us that this plant is a member of the hibiscus (or mallow) family, Malvaceae. The united yellow stamens form a distinctive tubular column. Bees, butterflies,…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 