Susie Cummings TRT Everglades National Park July 3, 2012

Wax Myrtle Oil from seeds and leaves were used as candles and scents for candles. Flocks of swallows spiral down to feed on the fruit.

Bracken Fern Woody stalk; yellow and green dyes are made from the roots. Pioneer plant –exists 20 years before surrounding vegetation takes over. fruit.

Southern Sumac Used for leather making; roots used to cure diarrhea. Larvae from red-banded hair streaked butterfly feed on this shrub.

Saw Palmetto Palm Fan leaves don’t have strings; Leaves are used for thatch; fruit is used in Europe to produce prostate medicine.

Rough leaf – Velvet seed The texture of the leaf is rough – seeds are velvet; wood is light brown, hard and heavy. Stems are used for stakes and fuel.

Tetrazyglia Leaf veins channel rain off its surface; In the Bahamas, a decoction of the leaves is drunk to reduce night sweats.

Poisonwood Dark green leaves with yellow veins; may have black and orange spots on trunk. It has highly irritating sap that creates a rash and blisters on humans. ood

Slash Pine Harvested for homes in the 1800’s; wood used to fuel Flagler’s trains. Flying squirrels and red- headed woodpecker almost extirpated because of the loss of trees. ood

Slash Pine bark ood Young Slash Pine ood

Cheeseshrub The odor of the fruit is similar to hot limburger cheese. The roots produce dyes of yellow and orange; used for laxatives; treats impotency and mental illness. ood

Cabbage Palm/ Sabal Palmetto Looks like the Saw Palmetto Palm but has strings hanging from the fronds. The fruit is eaten by many animals and spread from site to site. ood

Ficus / Strangler Fig Seed is deposited by birds into crevices of another tree, not the ground. Seeds sprout and send roots down the trunk of the host tree. Strangler fig grows and squeezes host tree out of the way. ood

Myrsine Spread by birds and mammals; they have little pulp which passes through the digestive track almost intact. Miccosukee used leaves to extend tobacco and called it white tobacco seasoning tree. ood

Greenbrier (vine) Birds spread Greenbrier seeds into every Florida habitat; the fruit are black, waxy berries. Berries supply dyes of blue, violet, and purple. ood

Lysiloma Smooth-barked tree with light green, compound leaves. Green-yellow, powder-puff flowers in summer provide food for flying insects. Lichen grows on bark for the liguus tree snail. Rice-a-Roni song ood

White Fennel ood

Tickseed Yellow flowers with brown center; flowers year-round. ood

White-Top Sedge 4-12 in stalks with white star-like flowers. Insect pollinated; most sedges are wind pollinated. No human uses for this species but in Venezuela it is used to treat sunstroke. ood

Solution Hole ood

Porterweed ood

Thistle ood

Tick Seed ood

Beautyberry ood  On my phone