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PALM FAMILY (ARECACEAE)
Bird food Cabbage palm fruit: catbirds, fish crows, grackles, mockingbirds, red-bellied woodpeckers, ring-billed gulls, robins, thrashers, others Palm fruit: many birds Butterfly nectar food Palmetto: Atala Saw palmetto: Eastern Pygmy-Blue Scrub palmetto: Tiny Hairstreak Wildlife food Palm hearts: bears Cabbage palm fruit: Big Cypress fox squirrels, raccoons Saw palmetto fruit: raccoons, gopher tortoises Thatch palm fruit: Mexican red-bellied squirrel Wildlife shelter Cabbage palm crown: Big Cypress fox squirrels, raccoons, frogs, lizards, insects Cabbage palm thatch: nest building Palm trunks: cavity nest sites for flickers, red-bellied woodpeckers Saw palmetto: excellent cover

name	area	flower & fruit	season	other

Silver palm Coccothrinax argentata	S	white purple	Sp Su	t
Royal palm Roystonea elata	S	yellow blue	Sp Su	t
Scrub palmetto Sabal etonia	NCS	white bluish black	Sp Su	s
Dwarf palmetto Sabal minor	NCS	white black	Sp F	s
Cabbage palm Sabal palmetto	NCS	white black	Su F	t
Saw palmetto Sabal repens	NCS	white black	SpSu SuF	s
Key thatch palm Thrinax morrisii	S	white-yellow white	Sp Su	t
Florida thatch palm Thrinax radiata	S	white-yellow white	Sp Su	t

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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