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440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Sweetscent (Pluchea odorata) is a native wildflower of moist places (brackish or fresh) that has a variety of other common names including camphorweed, stinkweed, salt marsh fleabane, sourbush, and cattle-tongue. Many of its common names refer to the sweet-spicey-musky fragrance…
Blanket flower (Gaillardia pulchella), also commonly called firewheel, had been thought to be native for many years. This plant flourishes in Florida and the southeast U.S. Recent DNA evidence indicates that this plant is native to the southwest. You can…
Donna Winter (Class of 2016) shared the photos above cure-for-all (Pluchea carolinensis), a plant that we saw at the Winter Beach Salt Marsh on a field trip on 3/8/2020 led by Dave Fuss, Indian River Land Trust Director of Stewardship.…
The aster family, Asteraceae, is sometimes called the daisy or sunflower family. Many plants in this family, like the weedy but native common beggarticks (Bidens alba) shown below, have the standard daisy setup, a central disc (which is filled with…
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