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Appendix A
RECOMMENDED NATIVE PLANTS FOR LANDSCAPE USE WITHIN THE SIX MILE CYPRESS WATERSHED BASIN1
The list of recommended native plants for landscape use within the Six Mile Cypress Watershed Basin is as follows:
Trees native to the Six Mile Watershed:
| O | red maple (Acer rubrum) |
| O | pond apple (Annona glabra)* |
| O | swamp dogwood (Cornus foemina) |
| XX | persimmon (Diospyros virqiniana) |
| O | pop ash (Fraxinus caroliniana) |
| X | dahoon holly (Ilex cassine) |
| X | swampbay (Persea palustris) |
| XX | South Florida slash pine (Pinus elliottii var. densa) |
| XX | laurel oak (Quercus laurifolia) |
| XX | water oak (Quercus nigra) |
| XX | live oak (Quercus virqiniana) |
| XX | sabal or cabbage palm (Sabal palmetto) |
| O | coastal plain willow (Salix caroliniana) |
| O | pond cypress (Taxodium ascendens) |
| XX | bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) |
| O | Florida elm (Ulmus americana var. floridana) |
Shrubs native to the Six Mile Watershed:
| XX | groundsel tree (Baccharis halimifolia) |
| XX | tar-flower (Befaria racemosa) |
| O | buckthorn, saffron plum (Bumelia celastrina) |
| XX | American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) |
| O | buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) |
| O | coral bean, cherokee bean (Erythrina herbacea)* |
| O | St. John's wort (Hypericum spp.) |
| X | gallberry (Ilex glabra) |
| XX | rusty lyonia (Lyonia ferruginea) |
| O | fetterbush (Lyonia lucida) |
| XX | wax myrtle (Myrica cerifera) |
| XX | rapenea, myrsine (Myrsine guianensis) |
| X | wild coffee (Psychotria nervosa)* |
| O | softleaf coffee (Psychotria sulzneri)* |
| O | winged sumac (Rhus copallina) |
| XX | saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) |
Ferns native to the Six Mile Watershed:
| leather fern | (Acrostichum danaeifolium)* |
| swamp fern | (Blechnum serrulatum) |
| strap fern | (Campyloneurum phyllitidis) |
| Boston fern | (Nephrolepis spp.) |
| cinnamon fern | (Osmunda cinnamomea) |
| royal fern | (Osmunda regalis) |
| whisk fern | (Psilotum nudum) |
| bracken fern | (Pteridium aquilinum) |
| shield fern | (Thelypteris spp.) |
Groundcover plants and vines native to the Six Mile Watershed:
| threeawn grass | (Aristida stricta) |
| butterfly-weed | (Asclepias tuberosa) |
| pawpaw | (Asimina reticulata) |
| asters | (Aster spp.) |
| pine-pink | (Bletia purpurea) |
| yellow canna | (Canna flaccida) |
| tickseed | (Coreopsis leavenworthii) |
| string lily, swamp lily | (Crinum Cellulosa) |
| spikerush | (Eleocharis cellulosa) |
| prairie iris, blue flag | (Iris hexagona) |
| rush | (Juncus spp.) |
| red root | (Lachnanthes caroliniana) |
| pine lily | (Lilium catesbaei) |
| white water-lily | (Nymphaea odorata) |
| maidencane | (Panicum hemitomon) |
| Virginia creeper | (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) |
| pickerelweed | (Pontederia cordata) |
| meadow beauty | (Rhexia spp.) |
| black-eyed susan | (Rudbeckia hirta) |
| duck potato, arrowleaf | (Sagittaria lanceolata) |
| bulrush | (Scirpus americanus) |
| soft-stem bulrush | (Scirpus validus) |
| blue-eyed grass | (Sisyrinchium spp.) |
| greenbriar | (Smilax spp.) |
| sand cordgrass | (Spartina bakerii) |
| Fakahatchee grass | (Tripsacum dactyloides) |
| Florida gamagrass | (Tripsacum floridanum) |
| wild grape | (Vitis spp.) |
| yellow-eyed grass | (Xyris-spp.) |
| knot grass | (Paspalum spp.) |
| muhly grass | (Muhlenbergia capillaris) |
* = Represents cold sensitivity.
Xeriscape legend for trees and shrubs:
XX = Very drought tolerant.
X = Moderately drought tolerant.
O = Unrated.
Prepared by Division of Environmental Sciences staff for the Six Mile Cypress Basin Review Board (11/90).
Editor's note— Printed herein is Appendix A to the Land Development Code. Amendments are indicated by parenthetical history notes following amended provisions. The absence of a history note indicates that the provision remains unchanged from the original. Obvious misspellings and punctuation errors have been corrected without notation. For stylistic purposes, a uniform system of headings, catchlines and expression of numbers in text has been used. Additions made for clarity are indicated by brackets.