Floral City Garden Club

Unidentified ... Can You Identify This Plant??? If so, contact: jo
	A pretty little wildflower growing along SR 48 ... it's about 12-14" tall with white star-shaped flowers and very fine narrow leaves
A bromiliad ... name unknown

Plants identified by bloom color To find out more about these plants search the internet using the botanical name	Blue-Purple White- Pink Yellow-Oange Red-Green

Blue-Purple
	Purple Flowers: Salvia leucantha Common Names: Mexican bush sage, Mexican sage, velvet sage Family: Lamiaceae/Labiatae (mint Family) Height: 36-48 in http://www.floridata.com/ref/S/salv_leu.cfm http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1837/ Kathy's Yellow Bells has formed a small ornamental tree and has given many months of flowers ... both are drought tolerant once established.

	Blue Curls [Trichostema dichotomum], Lamiaceae family A good plant to grow in your garden ... forms a small woody shrub. Doesn't like the soil too wet see http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/54009/


	http://www.californiagardens.com/Plant_Pages/petrea_volubilis.htm http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=PEVO http://www.backyardgardener.com/plantname/pda_8de9-4.html

White- Pink
A perennial twining vine found growing on the east side of Shamrock’s parking lot. Prolific bloomer from summer to winter. The flowers remain open all day, then close forever in the evening.	Thunbergia fragrans Sweet clock-vine, white thunbergia (Acanthaceae) http://www.hear.org/starr/hiplants/images/thumbnails/html/thunbergia_fragrans.htm

	Skunk Vine (Paederia foetida)
Q2 [Nov 2007]: How can Skunk Vine (Paederia foetida) be killed? Skunk vine is a Category I Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council weed (Langeland and Craddock Burks, 1998), a listing that groups the plant with the most invasive weed species in Florida. http://www.invasive.org/biocontrol/27SkunkVine.html	A2: Vines can be hand-pulled or managed with glyphosate or stems can be cut and treated with glyphosate triclopyr. Retreatment will probably be necessary. Biological controls are being tested. Trade names for products containing glyphosate include Gallup, Landmaster, Pondmaster, Ranger, Roundup, Rodeo, and Touchdown. Tradenames containing triclopyr are: Garlon, Turflon, Access, Redeem, Crossbow, Grazon and ET

	Common Name: Chinese or Rice Paper Plant {Tetrapanax papyiferus} http://www.floridata.com/ref/T/tetr_pap.cfm

A pale pink flower atop a 2.5' stem with narrow leaves growing in a sand hill pine habitat off US 41.	Family: Asteraceae (ass-ter-AY-see-ay) Genus: Lygodesmia (ly-goh-DES-mee-uh) Species: aphylla (a-FIL-uh) http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/88893/ Identified by Debbie Hooper, UFL Extension service

	Pink flowering vine: Antigonon leptopus Common Names: Mexican creeper, coral vine, corallita, confederate vine Family: Polygonaceae (buckwheat Family) jo grows this vine on an arbor with Passion Flower [which tries to over-take it] ... both vines climb via tendrills and tend to drape down into the path requiring frequent pruning or tying back, so a trellis or fence would be better. This is a 2-year old plant received as a seedling from a garden club member. The first year yielded very few flowers, but this year is much better. It seemed to freeze to the ground and was cut down, but that was a mistake ... other coral vines started blooming long before hers did. It attracts bees and butterflies ... hummingbirds check it out but don't linger. For how to grow it, check out the following web sites. http://www.swallowtailgardenseeds.com/vines/coral_vine.htm http://www.floridata.com/ref/A/anti_lep.cfm

Yellow-Oange
	*Winter* Cassia (Cassia bicapsularis or Senna bicapsularis) http://www.floridagardener.com/pom/cassiabicapsularis.htm, http://hort.ufl.edu/trees/CASBICA.pdf; http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Fabaceae/Senna_bicapsularis.html

	Mexican Sunflower, Bolivian Sunflower, Marigold Tree Tithonia diversifolia http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/59827/

	Yellow Flowers: Tecoma stans "Gold Star" Common Names: yellow elder, trumpetbush, yellow bells, ginger-thomas, tronadora, Esperanza Family: Bignoniaceae (bignonia Family) Height: 3 to 8 feet. http://www.floridata.com/ref/T/teco_sta.cfm & http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Bignoniaceae/Tecoma_stans.html Kathy's Yellow Bells has formed a small ornamental tree and has given many months of flowers ... both are drought tolerant once established.

	Narrow-leaf Sunflower or Swamp Sunflower (Helianthus angustifolius) A good plant to grow in your garden as a specimen or back border plant ... blooms in the fall. see http://www.floridata.com/ref/H/heli_ang.cfm


http://www.plantoftheweek.org/week099.shtml http://www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder/plant.asp?code=B690	Common Name: Blackberry lily {Belamcanda chinensis} Zone: 5 to 10 Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial Family: Iridaceae Missouri Native: No Native Range: Central Asia, India, China and Japan Height: 2 to 3 feet Spread: 0.75 to 2 feet Bloom Time: July - August Bloom Color: Orange dotted with red Sun: Full sun (only) Water: Medium moisture Maintenance: Low

Red-Green

Callaway Gardens. It was a very tall plant, growing at the waters edge	Common Names: scarlet hibiscus, scarlet rose mallow Hibiscus coccineus; Family: Malvaceae (mallow family) slender shrubby herbaceous perennial that dies back in winter and re-sprouts in spring. Established plants can have one to several stems up to 7 ft (2.1 m) tall. The five petaled flowers are brilliant crimson red and 6-8" across. Each lasts only a day but new ones continue to open all summer and fall. The leaves are divided palmately (like the fingers on a hand) into 3-7 narrow, pointed, serrated lobes. http://www.floridata.com/ref/H/hibisc_c.cfm http://monticellostore.stores.yahoo.net/631018.html