Native Florida Wildflowers

This is a blog that celebrates the beauty and diversity of Florida's wildflowers - with a bit of a focus on growing these plants in a home landscape. Some of the wildflowers featured here are grown and sold through Hawthorn Hill Native Wildflower and Rare Plant Nursery. E-mail (Huegelc55@aol.com)or call me (727-422-6583) if there is something you want to see in this blog - or something you wish to purchase.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Curtiss' Milkweed - Asclepias curtissii

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Curtiss' milkweed is an extremely rare endemic species, listed as endangered by the state and confined to deep excessively well-drained ...
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Largeflower Milkweed - Asclepias connivens

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I love this milkweed despite its rather small stature and simple greenish flowers.  Largeflower milkweed ( Asclepias connivens ) occ...

Savannah Milkweed - Asclepias pedicellata

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Savannah milkweed ( Asclepias pedicellata ) is yet another diminutive milkweed that largely goes unnoticed in the Florida landscape.  It occ...
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Florida Milkweed - Asclepias feayi

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Florida or feay's milkweed ( Asclepias feayi ) is a small, but rather distinctive member of this genus.  It is endemic to Florida and fo...
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Fewflower Milkweed - Asclepias lanceolata

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Fewflower milkweed is a tall thin species with thread-like linear leaves and small heads of bright orange blooms.  It occurs throughout Flor...
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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Longleaf Milkweed - Asclepias longifolia

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Longleaf milkweed ( Asclepias longifolia ) is found throughout Florida, and much of the Southeast, in moist to wet pinelands and savannahs. ...
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Sunday, February 7, 2010

Purple Milkweed - Asclepias humistrata

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Purple milkweed ( Asclepias humistrata ) is native to the northern two-thirds of Florida and resident to habitats with excessively well-drai...
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This blog is the work of Craig N. Huegel, PhD. I am an environmental consultant and educator who loves plants. Though formally educated as a wildlife biologist, I am an enthusiastic gardener and have studied and worked with plants my entire life. I currently serve as the Director of the University of South Florida Botanical Gardens. Prior to this I taught in the Baccalaureate Biology Program at St. Petersburg College. I have written six books on Florida native plants - the most recent four with the University of Florida Press and I lecture throughout the state on a variety of topics related to plants and wildlife. I use my central Florida landscapes as laboratories to evaluate native plants and we grow a wide variety of species (mostly wildflowers) that are not commonly propagated elsewhere.in order to give us hands-on experience. Hawthorn Hill is not a retail plant nursery, but twice a year, I open my yard to public tours and make my extra plants available to the public. If you are interested in what I am currently growing, please email me for my current list at huegelc55@aol.com or give me a call at (727) 422-6583.
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