Loggerhead Plant List

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1.  Morinda

Morinda royoc

Coffee Family; stipule between opposite leaves; flowers star-shaped, white; lumpy fruit looks like hand grenade

2.  Blolly

Guapira discolor

Small tree, leaves almost opposite, thick with white vein; buds rusty

3. Hercules-Club

Zanthoxylum clavis-herculis

Small thorny tree with compound leaves, the blades with translucent dots

4.  Bloodberry

Rivina humilis

Small sub-shrub with blood red berries

5. Hogplum

Ximenia americana

Thorny shrub with arching branches, white fuzzy flowers, and yellowish leaves. Root-parasite

6.  Tough Bully

Sideroxylon tenax

Thorny shrub, the leaf blades brown beneath

7.  Crown Beard

Verbesina virginica

Tall white-flowered wildflower with wings on the stem

8.  Red Bay

Persea borbonia

Shrub or small tree with the leaves fragrant when crushed, often with galls

9.  Jeweled Blue-Eyed Grass

Sisyrhinchium xerophyllum

Wildflower with the leaves meeting edge-to-edge, the flower small blue

10.  Necklace Pod

Sophora tomentosa

Shrub with lumpy pod, the flowers pealike, yellow