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Jupiter Inlet Plant List |
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1. Palafox Palafoxia feayi Shrubby scrub plant with tough alternate leaves and white to pinkish or light lavender daisy-type flowering heads
2. Florida Rosemary Ceratiola ericoides Looks like a little conifer
3. Gopher-Apple Licania michauxii One-foot tall plants on sand. Leathery glossy elliptic leaves 3" long, the flower white
4. Honeycomb Heads Balduina angustifolia Yellow-flowered scrub "daisy." The fruiting heads look like honeycombs.
5. Tread Softly Cnidosculus stimulans Ouch!
6. Wild Lantana Lantana involucrata Shrub with fragrant opposite fuzzy leaves, the pale lavender flowers in dense heads
7. Pinweed Lechea cernua On the scrub sand. Itsy bitsy leaves, the flowers/fruits look like little pin heads.
8. Silkgrass Pityopsis graminifolia Silky linear leaves. Flowers yellow.
9. Running Oak Quercus minima Six-inch tall oak with flat, lobed leaves
10. October Flower Polygonella polygama There are about three species of Polygonella in this natural area---they are similar, but this has oblanceolate leaves that look like a canoe paddle. Flowers look like white (to light pink) lace. Tall Jointweed (Polygonella gracilis) loses its leaves.
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