Plant List - Oscar Scherer State Park - Sarasota
October 31, 2017
By: Andy Firk

DARK GREEN TRAIL LOOP PLANTS ONLY LISTED BELOW

This particular trail takes one through mostly scrubby flatwoods.
UPDATED 10-29-2017: Plant inventory hike Oct. 29, 2017: Many beautyberries where ripe, acorns on shorter oaks, many butterfly peas flowering, many frostweeds were blooming as we drove in, many small-flowered wireweeds flowering, some Florida Paintbrushes were in full bloom, hundreds of Coastplain Palafox were in magnificent full bloom, an eagle circled over the three acre lake. 
BY SPECIES NAME:
ASTERACEAE – Ageratina jucunda, HAMMOCK SNAKEROOT, Native, widespread. 
ASTERACEAE – Carphephorus corymbosus, FLORIDA PAINTBRUSH or COASTPLAIN CHAFFHEAD, Native, widespread. 
ASTERACEAE - Carphephorus odoratissimus var. subtropicanus, PINELAND PURPLE or FALSE VANILLALEAF – native, endemic. 
ASTERACEAE – Palafoxia feayi, FEAY’S PALAFOX, native, endemic. 
ASTERACEAE – Palafoxia integrifolia, COASTPLAIN PALAFOX, Native, widespread. 
ASTERACEAE – Pityopsis graminifolia, NARROWLEAF SILKGRASS, Native. Widespread. 
FABACEAE – ?Amorpha herbacea, CLUSTERSPIKE FALSE INDIGO? = Three native species in Florida = A. herbacea var. crenulata is endangered and found in Miami-Dade county only.] That leaves two possibilities: A. herbacea, CLUSTERSPIKE FALSE INDIGO, with upright whitish flowers, and A. fruiticosa, BASTARD FALSE INDIGO, which tends to have more rounded leaves and more purple-leaning flowerspikes. 
FABACEAE – ?Baptisia lecontei, PINELAND WILD INDIGO? = I saw one species with small leaves, not flowering, seedpods under half an inch, quite small. It looked like B. lecontei, which is not vouchered at this location in Sarasota county, but is in adjoining DeSoto. There are eight species plus one variety in Florida. B. megacarpa is not vouchered in any counties on the FL plant atlas]. // ?Indigoferacaroliniana, CAROLINA INDIGO, Native, widespread. 
FABACEAE – Centrosema virginianum, SPURRED BUTTERFLY PEA is native and the most widespread= I saw many flowering along the trail. There are three spices in Florida. C. sagittatum is not native and has been found in Alachua county only. C. arenicola is endemic and endangered and grows from Highlands to Manatee counties and north, but not the panhandle. // FABACEAE – ?XClitoria= Three species = C. ternatea is not native and found in Miami-Dade county and the keys only, it is the edible-flowered Butterfly Pea that I have grown. / C. fragrans is endangered and endemic, found in central Florida. / C. mariana, ATLANTIC PIGEONWINGS, widespread, native, the seedpods are pretty thick, thicker than what is flowering here. 
FABACEAE – Chamaecrista fasciculata, PARTRIDGE PEA. Native. 
FABACEAE – ?Chamaecrista nicitans, SENSITIVE PEA. Native. / Another C. nicitans, var. aspera, is more widespread. How do you tell them apart? 
FABACEAE – Chapmannia floridana, FLORIDA ALICIA, Native, endemic. 
FABACEAE – ?Crotalaria pallida var. obovata, SMOOTH RATTLEBOX, not native, widespread. / ?C. incana?, not native, mostly coastal counties in central and south Florida. 
FABACEAE – Desmodium incanum, ZARZABACOA COMUN. Not native. 
FABACEAE - ?Desmodium- ? D. floridanum. / D. paniculatum. / D. tenuifolum. / D. tortuosum
FABACEAE – Galactia elliottii, ELLIOTT’S MILKPEA. Native. 
FABACEAE – Indigofera hirsuta, HAIRY INDIGO, Not native, widespread. 
FABACEAE – Indigofera spicata, TRAILING INDIGO, Not native, widespread. 
FABACEAE – Kummerowia striata, JAPANESE CLOVER, Not native, widespread. 
FABACEAE - ?Rhynchosia– 11 species and one variety = R. michauxii. / R. Minima, native, widespread. 
POACEAE – Dactyloctenium aegyptium, DURBAN CROWFOOTGRASS, Not native, widespread. 
POACEAE - ?Eragrostis – LOVEGRASS = Many species in Florida. 
POACEAE - ?Muhlenbergia capillaris[or the variety – M. capillaris var. filipes?] – MUHLY = Two species plus two more varieties. M. schreberi is a tiny one, with no purple color?, NOT VOUCHERED IN Sarasota or any adjoining counties. / M. c. var. trichopodes is only from far north Florida. 
POLYGONACEAE – ?Polygonella, one tall wispy species was found. [There are 8 native species plus one var. in Florida = P. fimbriata is only found in Holmes county in the pannhandle. / P. basiramia in endangered and found only in Highlands and Polk counties. / P. macrophylla is found in six panhandle counties. / P. myriophylla is found in Polk and three adjoining counties only. / P. robusta grows from palm Beach to Charlotte and northward in scattered counties and has whitish-pink bottlebrush-looking flowers] That leaves four possibilites: P. ciliata [HAIRY JOINTWEED], P. gracilis [TALL JOINTWEED], P. polygama [OCTOBER FLOWER], P. polygama var. brachystachya [OCTOBER FLOWER]. 
BY COMMON NAME [move to scientific name above[: 
ADAM’S NEEDLE 
ARROZ CON TODA 
BASKETGRASS 
BAYBERRY, SOUTHERN 
BEACH SUNFLOWER - Helianthus debilis - Asteraceae 
BEAUTYBERRY, AMERICAN 
BEAUTYBERRY, AMERICAN - White-fruited form 
BLACKBERRY, ?SAND - Rubus 
BLACKROOT 
?BLUEBERRY, LOWBUSH 
BRACKEN FERN 
BRIARS [Smilax species] 
BROOM SEDGE, BUSHY 
CABBAGE PALM 
CAROLINA CHERRY LAUREL 
CINCHWEED - Pectis 
COONTIE 
CORAL BEAN 
CREEPING CUCUMBER 
?CROTON, Grass-leaved 
DALEA species - long-flowered 
?DIODIA, LIGHT PURPLE-FLOWERED 
DUNE SUNFLOWER – Helianthus debilis 
ELEPHANT'S FOOT, TALL 
EUPATORIUM - White-flowered species 
FABACEAE - A tiny yellow flowered species 
FETTERBUSH 
?FLATWOODS PLUM 
FOGFRUIT 
FROSTWEED - Asteraceae - Verbesina virginica 
GOLDENRODS - Solidago species 
GOPHER APPLE 
GRAPE, WILD 
GRASS-LEAVED EUPHORBIA 
GROUNDSEL BUSH 
HEMPVINE [Hairy-leaved] 
HONEYCOMBHEAD 
HORSEWEED 
LIVE OAK 
MEXICAN CLOVER, LARGE-FLOWERED - Richardia 
MEXICAN CLOVER, SMALL-FLOWERED - Richardia 
MILKPEA - Galactia species 
OAK 
ORANGE, SWEET - seedling trees 
?PAINTED LEAF  
PASSIONFLOWER, CORKY-STEMMED 
PAW PAW - Asimina species 
PEPPERVINE 
?PHYLLANTHUS [Niuru?] 
PINELAND ASTER 
PINK TASSLEFLOWER 
?PIROQUETA
POISON IVY 
POLYGALA, LARGE-FLOWERED 
POLYGALA, ORANGE 
POLYGALA, YELLOW 
PONYFOOT 
PRIMROSE WILLOW - Ludwigia ?maratima 
RAGWEED 
RATTLESANKE MASTER 
RED BAY 
ROSARY PEA 
RIVER SAGE - Salvia misella - aka SOUTHERN RIVER SAGE - Lamiaceae 
ROSARY PEA 
RUSTY LYONIA 
SANDSPUR, ?COASTAL 
SAW PALMETTO 
SIDA SPECIES 
SLASH PINE 
SPANISH BAYONET 
SPANISH MOSS 
SPANISH NEEDLES 
SOUTHERN RED CEDAR 
SPURGE 
TALLOW PLUM - Ximenia Americana 
TASSLEFLOWER, PINK 
?TICK TREFOIL, DIXIE 
TREAD SOFTLY 
TROPICAL CHICKWEED 
?VIRGINIA FERN 
WILD PINE [Tillandsia ?setacea] 
WINGED SUMAC 
WOODBINE 
YAUPON HOLLY 
YELLOWTOPS 
Plus, something that looked like a non-flowering Florida Pennyroyal, and was scentless
OTHERS PEOPLE HAVE LISTED
Cut-Leaf Evening Primrose