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DAISY FAMILY
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Bird food goldfinches, indigo buntings
- Coreopsis seeds: songbirds
- Goldenrod seeds: pine siskins, yellow-rumped warblers
- Rudbeckia seeds: many birds
- Sunflower seeds: blue jays, bobwhites, Carolina chickadees, doves, meadowlarks, nuthatches, pine siskins, red-bellied woodpeckers, sparrows, titmice, white-breasted nuthatches, yellow-rumped warblers
Butterfly larval food: Dainty Sulphur, Pearl Crescent
Butterfly nectar food: Buckeye, Dina Yellow, Florida White, Mimosa Yellow, Monarch, Pearl Crescent, Phaon Crescent, Silvery Checkerspot, Snout, Viceroy
- Spanish needles: Amethyst Hairstreak, Barred Yellow, Bartram's Scrub-Hairstreak, Cassius Blue, Ceraunus Blue, Fulvous Hairstreak, Great Purple Hairstreak, Great Southern White, Gulf Fritillary, Julia, Lyside Sulphur, Martial Scrub-Hairstreak, Miami Blue, Pearl Crescent, Queen, Sleepy Orange, Southern Hairstreak, Sweadner's Juniper Hairstreak, Tiny Hairstreak, White Peacock, Zebra Longwing
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name |
area | flower
& fruit |
season |
other |
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Climbing aster
Aster caroliniensis | NCS | lavender-blue | SuF | p |
Walter's aster
Aster walteri | NCS | deep blue | SuF | p |
Spanish needles
Bidens pilosa | NCS | white | SpSuF | a, i  |
Sea oxeye daisy
Borrichia frutescens | NCS | yellow | SpSuFW | p |
Florida Paintbrush
Carphephorus corymbosus | NCS | lavender | F | p |
Thistle
Cirsium spp. | NCS | many | SpSuF | b |
Tick-seed
Coreopsis spp. | NCS | yellow | SpSuFW | p |
Purple coneflower
Echinacea purpurea | NCS | purple | Su | p |
Mistflower
Eupatorium coelestinum | NCS | blue | SuF | p |
Gaillardia
Gaillardia pulchella | NC | various | SpSu | a |
Garberia
Garberia fruticosa | NC | pink | F | s |
Narrow-leaved sunflower
Helianthus angustifolius | NCS | yellow, red-purple | SuF | p |
Beach sunflower
Helianthus debilis | NCS | yellow, red-purple | SpSuFW | a |
Blazing star
Liatris spp. | NCS | many | SuF | p |
Silkgrass
Pityopsis graminifolia | NCS | yellow | SuF | p |
Black-eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta | NCS | yellow | SpSuF | b |
Goldenrod
Solidago fistulosa | NCS | yellow | SuF | p |
Stoke's aster
Stokesia laevis | NC | various | SpSuF | p |
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| Codes: |
N=north
C=central
S=south |
Sp=spring
Su=summer
F=fall
W=winter |
a=annual
b=biennial
p=perennial
s=shrub
t=tree
v=vine |
i=invasive
ta=toxic to animals
th=toxic to humans |
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Florida Native Plants
