Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Just a few steps from the eastern entrance to the south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA), you will find tarflower (Bejaria racemosa), shown above, full of pinkish white flowers. Its flowers are held in racemes, clusters of flowers that open from…
Tarflower (Bejaria racemosa) is now blooming beautifully at ORCA on the south side of Oslo Road. A member of the heath family (Ericaceae), tarflower thrives in the acid soils of xeric scrub and scrubby pine flatwoods. Flycatcher is another common…
Thank you to everyone who participated in the 4-9-2016 plant id talk and walk: Dennis Fitzpatrick, Cynthia Hersh, Ken Gonyo, Felicity Rask, Donna Winter, Trich Kruza, Sue Thompson, Kathy Sullivan & Lynda Salsbury. The sky blue lupine (Lupinus diffusus) was…
The tarflower (Bejaria racemosa) has flowered gloriously at the south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area this year. Steve Goff (Class of 2006), Pelican Island Audubon Society treasurer, provides scale in the picture above taken on 6/15/2014. Tarflower also was abundant at…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 