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Plant Type Lists
Floridata categorizes each species by assigning each one or more "type" pages. Here are a few examples of recent updates. See the Plant Tag Lists page for the complete set or select from this menu:
 Shrubs more »
Turkey stuffed with sage dressing - mmmmmmmm...
Pansies are wonderful cool weather annuals that are available in a wide range of color and facial expressions. Click to download this pansy picture to plant on your computer desktop.
Soft rush has colonized this low wet area of a cow pasture in Jefferson County, Florida. Click to download a large version.
Feature Lists
Floridata has a standard set of Feature Tags, each represented by an icon that signifies a particular attribute, characteristic or use. Display a list of plants with a particular attribute by clicking these icons or selecting from this menu:
 Edible Plants
Herbs, vegetables and fruits - click this icon to display a list of all 125+ plants in Floridata with parts suitable for human consumption:
 Butterfly Plants
Click this icon to display a list of plants that serve as nectar and larval food sources for butterflies - like this one:
 Drought Tolerant Plants
This icon identifies plants that require little or no supplemental watering and are tolerant of dry conditions like:
 Fall Foliage Plants
This icon identifies plants that produce colorful fall foliage displays like:
With red foliage against green stems the mayberry (Vaccinium elliottii) is all decked out in holiday colors at this time of year. Click here to download a large version.
 Indoor Plants
This icon identifies plants that grow well indoors in the home and office where they provide numerous benefits in addition to being beautiful.
 Medicinal Plants
This icon identifies plants that are, (or have been in the past) used to cure disease and to promote health and healing:
...the famous herbal mood enhancer!
 Hummingbird Plants
This icon identifies plants whose blossoms attract hummingbirds:
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Resources & Articles
In addition to Plant Profiles and Lists, Floridata features articles and other resources. Look for new pictures, pages and updates in this section.
Picture Gallery
Every year we celebrate Thanksgiving. Every year I post the story of Turkey Frank. Not so much because it is inspirational or entertaining but more because I don't have any other turkey stories to tell. Give thanks for that and click here to read about Turkey Frank.
The Bolivian sunflowers (Tithonia diversifolia) that I planted out back last spring grew to about 20-ft tall. Last month a storm blew them over. One is prostrate on the ground but the other tilts at an angle still holding its flowers 12-ft from the ground. Click to download a large version (800x600) for your computer desktop.
Here's an ant's eye view of a golden angel trumpet (Brugmansia aurea) blossom. These are pastel yellow when they open becoming a rich golden color. By tomorrow this beauty will be withered and faded. Click to download a large version (800x600) of this image to display on your computer desktop.
Bonita Belle is a female bronze breasted turkey who used to live next door to me. She liked stale bread, walks in the rain and pecking camera lenses when being photographed. I'm not sure what became of her but I fear the worst. Click to download a large version of Bonita Belle a big breast-of-bronze beauty to enjoy on your computer desktop
See more turkey pictures - click here for My Favorite Turkeys Floridazl show.
Click here for links to Ray's plant and gardening articles like:
The Transplanted Gardener
Do you know where Florida's wildflowers are? Let Florida Wildflower Foundation know by 12/1/09! In 2010, the Foundation plans to survey other wildflower-profuse areas in the Panhandle and in North, Central, and South Florida. The surveys will identify showy areas of native wildflowers in order to document species and suggest management practices. This research also will help them promote Florida's native wildflowers as economic and intrinsic community assets.
Before they begin the surveys, they need your help to locate showy roadside or trailside (paved bike or foot path) native wildflower sites throughout the state. Ginny provides more information in Where Are Florida's Wildflowers?
Congratulations Ginny!
Floridata profiles plants for all climates and conditions but the state of Florida is our home and Ginny Stibolt writes Floridata's Transplanted Gardener columns just for gardeners in our state. So I'm very happy to congratulate her on the publication of her new book, Sustainable Gardening for Florida, by University Press of Florida. Florida gardeners really can make a difference, one yard at a time, by following her 8 steps to sustainability.
 Link to Floridata!
Enhance your web pages - use the Plant1 "Get Link" link in the title area of the Plant Profiles and the system will create a snippet of HTML that contains a botanical name and link to that Profile. Click here for more info.
Floridata's Daily Plant
Here's another of Floridata's gadgets - it serves up a new plant for you each day. Add our Daily Plant gadget to your Google homepage - just click the "+ Google" button below!.
By "adopting" Plant Profiles these businesses are helping Floridata grow. Here are links to their sites and to some of the profiles they are sponsoring this year. I thank them for their support and hope that you will visit and shop. ~Jack
garden lilies (Lilium hybrids)
tulips (Tulipa spp.)
Leyland cypress (Cupressocyparis Leylandii)
red maple (Acer rubrum)
river birch (Betula nigra)
Knockout Rose (Rosa Radrazz)
nandina (Nandina domestica)
Floridata needs your help! Please watch the video. If you would like contribute a few dollars to help pay our hosting and other expenses over the winter, click the PayPal Donate button (you do NOT have to be registered with Paypal). Thanks! ~Jack
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