Common Purple Flowers In Florida

Common native wildflowers of north florida 2 taylor w k.

Common purple flowers in florida. Fuchsia fuchsia magellanica fuchsia is a very distinct and exotic looking flower. Florida wildflowers in their natural. Verbena is a beautiful plant that produces small purple blooms all summer long. The purple flower symbolizes foolishness and innocence.

Us wildflower s database of wildflowers for florida click on thumbnail for larger version of image scientific name for detail page. So enjoy purple perennials in your garden. If you like your planters or garden to have a vibrant touch of color this is the flower you should pick over all others. Columbine aquilegia columbine flowers have dark green foliage and bell shaped flowers that come in a variety of pastels including purple.

Spanning the range from violet to maroon to blue purple to pale lavender there are plants with purple flowers for all tastes from mild to wild. The florida native is quite drought and salt tolerant grows fast and makes a good ground cover. Its fern like foliage provides light dappled shade perfect for patios. Leaves are sessile elliptic with entire margins to 1 1 2 inches long.

Flowers range in color from pinkish to lavender or purple occasionally white 2 inches across from spring through fall. Watershield found in florida s lakes ponds and slower streams in water up to six feet deep is a free flowing plant with long leaf stalks. Watershield s flowers are small and dull purple extending from the water on a stalk. Enter any portion of the scientific common name or both.

Needs moist well drained soil. Purple is traditionally the color of royalty and magistrates but also is synonymous with mardi gras. Description florida native wildflower perennial forb herb to 2 1 2 feet high. The trumpet shaped flowers emerge in clusters of lavender violet purple or white.

It grows as a delicate deciduous spreading tree. Common along the coastlines is the beach sunflower helianthus debiles with its yellow or purple flowers. Jacaranda is one of the botanical treasures of central and south florida. The stalks extend downward and attach to a sprawling anchored root in the mud bottom.

Dark purple disk flowers few to no ray flowers 2 to 3 feet flatwoods slightly moist site. The flowers are traditionally used in floral arrangements this flower is also lovely when dried. Dixie iris iris hexagona. From guide to the vascular plants of the florida panhandle by a f.

Purple flowers hundreds of purple flowers to choose from.