Florida native flora

Florida native plant lookup

Search Florida native plants by scientific name, common name, synonym, or family. The directory brings together published native-plant records, Florida county evidence, taxonomy, synonyms, and source-backed images for conservation, restoration, education, and research.

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Browse Florida native plants

Move through the directory by geographic region or major botanical family. Every page connects back to documented plant records.

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Florida regionPanhandleLongleaf pine country, seepage slopes, coastal systems, and western Florida flora.Explore region →Florida regionNorth FloridaNorthern forests, river systems, flatwoods, hammocks, and inland native flora.Explore region →Florida regionCentral FloridaSandhills, scrub, wetlands, flatwoods, lakes, and the heart of peninsular Florida.Explore region →Florida regionSouth FloridaSubtropical hammocks, wetlands, coastal habitats, Everglades landscapes, and rare flora.Explore region →Florida regionFlorida KeysThe tropical island flora of Monroe County and the Florida Keys.Explore region →
Major plant families
ASTERACEAE328native recordsPOACEAE265native recordsCYPERACEAE244native recordsFABACEAE178native recordsORCHIDACEAE107native recordsEUPHORBIACEAE69native recordsLAMIACEAE69native recordsLEJEUNEACEAE61native recordsRUBIACEAE47native recordsFAGACEAE46native records

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3,321 native plants found

Plant data credits: Botanical data and images used to assemble this directory comes from Creative Commons platforms under CC BY 4.0.

Florida Seed Bank organized the data into its own directory.