Low-maintenance landscape plants for south Florida

Jody Haynes, John McLaughlin, Laura Vasquez, and Adrian Hunsberger

This is the online version of our low-maintenance landscape plant list. For each species listed, a short description is provided, as well as information on maximum size, light preference, salt tolerance, flood / wet soil tolerance, and whether or not the species is common or uncommon, native or non-native.

The plant list is also available in a printable form, as a 300 Kb PDF document -- click here to download.

Note: Some of the pages may load slowly...so please be patient.

Table of Contents
Introduction Perennials Annuals Shrubs & Hedges (A-Ci) Shrubs & Hedges (Cl-Ha) Shrubs & Hedges (He-P) Shrubs & Hedges (R-Z) Flowering & Shade Trees (A-E) Flowering & Shade Trees (F-Z)	Fruit Trees Palms, Cycads & Palm-like Plants (A-E) Palms, Cycads & Palm-like Plants (G-Z) Ornamental Grasses Groundcovers (A-I) Groundcovers (J-Z) Vines Epiphytes Herbs & Vegetables
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Scientific Name / Common Name Cross-Reference	Common Name / Scientific Name Cross-Reference

Nearly every species is hyperlinked to an existing page on the Internet that provides photos and/or additional information. When available, links are also provided to University of Florida - IFAS fact sheets (which are PDF documents).

The following websites were used as Internet resources:

*Primary Sites*
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants - Institute for Systematic Botany, University of South Florida http://www.plantatlas.usf.edu Floridata^TM http://www.floridata.com Horticopia^� Plant Information http://www.hortpix.com	Phillippe & Sura's Phoenix Tropical Garden http://www.desert-tropicals.com Virtual Cycad Encyclopedia - Palm & Cycad Societies of Florida, Inc. http://www.plantapalm.com/vce/vce_index.htm Virtual Palm Encyclopedia - Palm & Cycad Societies of Florida, Inc. http://www.plantapalm.com/vpe/vpe_index.htm
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*Secondary Sites*
California Rare Fruit Growers http://www.crfg.org/pubs/frtfacts.html Charles & Margaret Baker's Orchid Culture Sheets http://www.orchidculture.com Charlie's Web http://www.charlies-web.com Higher Ground southern gardening site http://www.flash.net/~elang/ Home & Garden Channel's Plant Encyclopedia http://hg.women.com/homeandgarden/ Loyola Marymount University, Biology Department http://eco.bio.lmu.edu	Pine Island Nursery http://tropicalfruitnursery.com Plant Creations Nursery http://www.plantcreations.com Ruben P. Sauleda's "The Orchids of Florida" http://members.tripod.com/~rsauleda/ The American Orchid Society http://www.theaos.org The Orchid Connection http://www.orchidconnection.com University of Hawaii, Department of Botany http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/160webindex.htm Wayn'e Word http://waynesword.palomar.edu/wayne.htm

Sources for UF Fact Sheets

Dr. Ed Gilman's "516 Landscape Plant Fact Sheets" - University of Florida - IFAS
http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/new/shrubs/TAXON.HTM
Dr. Ed Gilman's "680 Tree Fact Sheets" - University of Florida - IFAS
http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/trees/TAXON.HTM
University of Florida - IFAS Extension Publications Page
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu

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