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Range Sites of Florida

Associated Vegetation of Florida Rangelands

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GRASSES AND GRASSLIKES
Common Name
Creeping bluestem
Chalky bluestem
South Florida bluestem
Lopsided indiangrass
Switchgrass
Toothachegrass
Wiregrass
Panicums
Sedges
Rushes
Cutthroat grass
Maidencane
Low panicums
Paspalums
Saltmarsh windmillgrass
Dropseed spp.
Sawgrasses
Little blue maidencane
Clubhead cutgrass
American cupscale
Purple bluestem
Broomsedge bluestem
Smooth cordgrass
Big cordgrass
Marshhay cordgrass
Seashore saltgrass
Seashore dropseed
Seashore paspalum
Shoregrass
Whorted dropseed
Gulfdune paspalum
Beaked panicum
Lovegrasses
Sand cordgrass
Gulf muhly
Bluejoint panicum
Sloughgrass
Muhly spp.
Splitbeard bluestem
Curtis dropseed
Pinewood dropseed
Spikeleaf uniola
Longleaf uniola
Virginia wildrye
Eastern gamagrass
Low paspalums
Genus and Species
Schizachyrium stoloniferum
Andropogon capillipes
Schizachyrium rhizomatus
Sorghastrum elliotii
Panicum virgatum
Ctenium aromaticum
Aristida stricta
Panicum spp.
Cyperus spp.
Juncus spp.
Panicum abscissium
Panicum hemitomon
Panicum spp.
Paspalum spp.
Estachys glauca
Sporobolus spp.
Cladium jamaicense
Amphicarpum muhlenbergianum
Leersia hexandra
Sacciolepis striata
Andropogon virginicus var. glaucopsis
Andropogon virginicus
Spartina alterniflora
Spartina cynosuroides
Spartina patens
Distichlis spicata
Sporobolus virginicus
Paspalum vaginatum
Monanthochloe litoralis
Sporobulus virginicus
Paspalum monostachyum
Panicum anceps
Eragrostis spp.
Spartina bakeri
Muhlenbergia filipes
Panicum tenerum
Scleria spp.
Muhlenbergia spp.
Andropogon ternarius
Sporobolus curtissii
Sporobulus junceus
Chasmanthium laxum
Chasmanthium sessiliflorum
Elymus virgincus
Tripsacum dactyloides
Paspalum spp.

FORBS
Common Name
Gayfeather
Deertongue
Grassleaf goldaster
Creeping beggarweed
Aeschynomene
Red root
Dogfennel
Spanish needles
Yellow-eyed grass
Pickerelweed
Pennyroyal
Smartweed
Dayflower
Marsh pink
Aster
Duck potatoe
Cattail
Rattlebox
Begger-ticks
Sensitive briar
Devil's shoelace
Partridge pea
Braken fern
Sea purslane
Glasswort
Sea blite
Sea lavender
Lemon bacopa
Pepperweed
Phlox
Rabbit tobacco
Genus and Species
Liatris gracillis
Trilisa odoratissima
Pityopsis graminifolia
Desmodium incanum
Aeschynomene spp.
Lachnanthes caroliniana
Eupatorium capillifolium
Bidens bipinnata
Xyris spp.
Pontederia cordata
Piloblephis rigida
Polygonum spp.
Commelina spp.
Sabatia spp.
Aster spp.
Sagittaria latifolia
Typha spp.
Crotalaria spp.
Bidens spp.
Schrankia spp.
Tephrosia spp.
Cassia spp.
Pteridium aquilinum
Sesuvium spp.
Salicornia spp.
Suaeda spp.
Limonium carolinianum (common)
Bacopa caroliniana
Ampelopsis arborea
Phlox spp.
Gnaphalium spp. esp. G. obtusifolium

TREES & SHRUBS
Common Name
Cabbage palm
Oak
Gallberry
Fetterbush
Saw-palmetto
Tarflower
Wax myrtle
Dwarf huckleberry
St. Johns-wort
South Florida slashpine
Greenbriar
Buttonbush
Willow
Cypress
Persimmon
Maple
Longleaf pine
Turkey oak
Gopher apple
Prickly pear
Live oak
Slash pine
Bushy seaoxeye
Black mangrove
Matrimony vine
Bigleaf sumpweed
Lynoia spp.
Stagger-bush
Fetterbush
Rusty
Scrub cypress
Sea myrtle
Bulmolia spp.


Sumac
Poison sumac
Winged sumac
Laurel oak
Water oak
Grape vine
Elderberry
American beautyberry
Caesarbur
Genus and Species
Sabal palmetto
Quercus spp.
Ilex glabra
Lyonia lucida
Serenoa repens
Befaria racemosa
Myrica cerifera
Vaccinium myrsinites
Hypericum spp.
Pinus elliottii var. densa
Smilax spp.
Cephalanthus occidentalis
Salix spp.
Taxodium spp.
Diospyros virginiana
Acer spp.
Pinus palustris
Quercus laevis
Licania michauxii
Opuntia spp.
Quercus virginiana
Pinus elliottii
Borrichia spp.
Avicennia germinans
Lycium carolinianum
Iva frutescens

Lyonia ferruginea and Lyonia mariana
Lyonia lucida
Lyonia ferruginea
Taxodium distichum
Baccharis halimifolia
Bumelia lanuginosa
Bumelia tenax
Bumelia celastrina

Toxicodendron vernix
Rhus copallina
Quercus laurifolia
Quercus nigra
Vitis spp.
Sambucus spp.
Callicarpa americana
Urena lobata


Adapted from "Range Sites of Florida" by 
J. Jeffrey Mullahey, George W. Tanner, and Stephen Coates
IFAS Extension Circular 951


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