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This year marks a major milestone for the Foundation: 25 years of advocating for Florida’s native wildflowers. To honor that legacy — and to look boldly toward what comes next — we’re having a year-long celebration built around community, storytelling and impact.
Blue porterweed
Blue porterweed (Stachytarpheta jamaicensis) is an excellent addition to a butterfly garden. It is a host plant for the Tropical buckeye and a nectar source for many other butterfly species.
Beach creeper
Beach creeper (Ernodea littoralis) is an evergreen low-growing, mat-forming shrub found on dunes, beaches and coastal hammock edges throughout Central and South Florida.
Tall ironweed
Tall ironweed (Vernonia angustifolia) is a robust perennial wildflower that blooms in summer and fall, attracting a variety of pollinators, especially butterflies.
Alligatorflag
Alligatorflag (Thalia geniculata) occurs naturally in wetland depressions and cypress sloughs, and along the edges of marshes, swamps and wet ditches. It typically blooms summer through fall.
Rosy camphorweed
Rosy camphorweed (Pluchea baccharis) is a summer-blooming wildflower found in wet habitats throughout Florida. Its pink flowers are particularly attractive to small butterflies, bees and other dainty pollinators.
Joe Pye weed
Joe Pye weed (Eutrochium fistulosum) is a robust summer-blooming wildflower that attracts a wide variety of pollinators and is a favorite of butterflies. The seeds are consumed by small birds.
Hairy laurel
Hairy laurel (Kalmia hirsuta) is a low-growing shrub that occurs naturally in pine flatwoods, savannas, sandhills and moist ditches. Its distinctive, rose-colored blooms attract a variety of pollinators.
Beach verbena
Beach verbena (Glandularia maritima) is a state-listed endangered wildflower endemic to Florida’s east coast. It blooms year-round, although the most prolific flowering occurs in spring and summer.
Tarpon Springs Public Library Native Plant Garden
Tarpon Springs Public Library in Pinellas County was selected for the Seeds of Knowledge Library Demonstration Garden Grant in spring 2026.
Spring Hill Branch Public Library Native Plant Garden
Spring Hill Branch Library in Hernando County was selected for the Seeds of Knowledge Library Demonstration Garden Grant in spring 2026.
Parker Public Library Native Plant Garden
Parker Public Library in Bay County was selected for the Seeds of Knowledge Library Demonstration Garden Grant in spring 2026.
Orange Park Public Library Native Plant Garden
Orange Park Library in Clay County was selected for the Seeds of Knowledge Library Demonstration Garden Grant in spring 2026.
Deltona Regional Public Library Native Plant Garden
The Deltona Regional Library was selected for the Seeds of Knowledge Library Demonstration Garden Grant in spring 2026.
Bushnell Public Library Native Plant Garden
Bushnell Public Library in Sumter County was selected for the Seeds of Knowledge Library Demonstration Garden Grant in spring 2026.
Fort Walton Beach Library Native Plant Garden
Fort Walton Beach Library in Okaloosa County was selected for the Seeds of Knowledge Library Demonstration Garden Grant in spring 2026.
Emily Taber Public Library Native Plant Garden
Emily Taber Public Library in Baker County was selected for the Seeds of Knowledge Library Demonstration Garden Grant in spring 2026.
Buffalo clover
Buffalo clover’s (Trifolium reflexum) beautiful spring- to early summer-blooming flowers are attractive to pollinators, and the plant may serve as a larval host for the Eastern tailed-blue butterfly.
Swamp twinflower
Swamp twinflower (Dyschoriste humistrata) is a low-growing wildflower that occurs naturally along the edges of forested wetlands. A great groundcover option for a moist to wet shady area, it attracts bees and butterflies.
Virginia pepperweed
A member of the mustard family, Virginia pepperweed (Lepidium virginicum) is edible to humans. It is also a host plant for the checkered white and Great Southern white butterflies. Bees love it, too!
Butterweed
Butterweed (Packera glabella) is one of the first wildflowers to bloom in early spring. It grows in dense stands that illuminate moist roadsides and river edges.
Blue-eyed grass
The low profile of Blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium) makes it an excellent groundcover choice. Its dainty, star-shaped flowers bloom winter through summer and attract a variety of pollinators.
Canadian toadflax
Canadian toadflax (Linaria canadensis) is an annual wildflower that forms a delicate sea of lavender when in bloom. It is common along roadsides, and in pastures and other disturbed areas.
Common blue violet
Florida’s Common blue violet (Viola sororia) is aptly named as it is the most common violet throughout the state. It is often seen in cultivated lawns and occurs naturally in hammocks and upland hardwood forests.
Red chokeberry
Red chokeberry (Aronia arbutifolia) is a deciduous shrub found in moist to wet pine flatwoods and along wetland and swamp margins. In late winter and spring, the plant is covered in a profusion of showy, sweet-scented blooms.