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List of native Florida specimens for butterfly gardening

Herbs

Bear's Foot (Polymnia uvedalia)
Cat Tongue (Melanthera nivea)
Curtiss' Milkweed (Asclepias curtissii)
Elephant's Foot (Elephantopus elatus)
Elliot's Aster (Aster elliottii)
False Foxglove (Agalinis fasciculata)
Goatweed (Capraria biflora)
Heliotrope (Heliotropium angiospermum)
Lyre-Leaved Sage (Salvia lyrata)
Mistflower (Connoclinium coelestinium)
Paint Brush (Carphephorus corymbosus)
Pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata)
Poor Joe (Diodia teres)
Porterweed (Stachytarpheta jamaicensis)
Prairie Feather (Liatris spp.)
Primrose Willow (Ludwigia peruviana)
Redroot (Lachnanthes caroliniana)
Summer Fairwell (Dalea pinnata)
Tampa Verbena (Glandularia tempensis)
Thistle (Cirsium horridulum)
Tread Softly (Cnidoscolus stimulosus)
Tropical Sage (Salvia coccinea)
Vanilla Plant (Carphephorus odoratissimus)
Wild Buckwheat (Eriogonum tomentosum)
Yellow Buttons (Balduina angustifolia)

Trees

Carolina Willow (Salix caroliniana)
Chickasaw Plum (Prunus angustifolia)
Blackbead (Pithecellobium keyense)
Black Mangrove (Avicennia germinans)
Hog Plum ( Prunus umbellata)
Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
Strongback (Bourreria ovata)
Wild Cherry (Prunus serotina)

Shrubs

Bloodberry (Cordia globosa)
Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
Carolina Willow (Salix caroliniana)
Coco Plum (Chrysobalanus icaco)
Devil's Walkingstick (Aralia spinosa)
Firebush (Hamelia patens)
Garberia (Garberia heterophylla)
Gopher Apple (Licania michauxii)
Penny Royal (Piloblephis rigida)
Rusty Lyonia (Lyonia ferruginea)
Sand Blackberry (Rubus cuneifolius)
Saw Palmetto (Serenoa repens)
Shiny Blueberry (Vaccinium myrsinites)
Sparkleberry (Vaccinium arboreum)
Scrub Palmetto (Sabal etonia)
Trailing Lantana (Lantana depressa)
Wild Coffee (Psychotria nervosa)
Wild Sage (Lantana involucrata)

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