Plant Size: 10-15 ft tall x 10-15 ft wide
Habitat: Moist woods, thickets, bottomlands
Medicinal Uses: Has been used in medicines, eye-washes, after shave lotions and salves for soothing insect bites, burns and poison ivy rashes.
Florida Native Plant Society database entry for Hamamelis Virginiana
Atlas of Florida Plants database entry for Hamamelis Virginiana
Discussed in: Making Herbal Teas, Tinctures, and Salves with Bevin Cohen
Found in the following counties: Alachua, Bay, Calhoun, Clay, Columbia, Duval, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Hamilton, Hernando, Highlands, Hillsborough, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lake, Leon, Levy, Liberty, Madison, Marion, Nassau, Okaloosa, Polk, Putnam, Santa Rosa, St. Johns, Suwannee, Taylor, Wakulla, Walton, Washington
Plant Size: Up to 80 ft tall x 30 ft wide
Habitat: Mesic woodlands, wet swamps, and will grow in standing water
Medicinal Uses: Used as a stimulant, antiseptic, and expectorant
Florida Native Plant Society database entry for Liquidambar Styraciflua
Atlas of Florida Plants database entry for Liquidambar Styraciflua
Discussed in: 20 Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Southeastern U.S.
Plant Size: 3-10 ft long stems, sprawling and scrambling over other vegetation
Habitat: Disturbed, brushy areas or disturbed upland hardwood forest, sandhill and scrub
Medicinal Uses: The Cherokee used a compound infusion of the root to treat boils. They also gave an infusion of root to babies to aid in weaning, and a warm infusion of beaten root dropped into the ear for earache. The Cherokee used parboiled leaves and the fruit as a food source.
Contraindications: possible presence of cyanogenic glycosides in Passiflora
Florida Native Plant Society database entry for Passiflora incarnata
Atlas of Florida Plants database entry for Passiflora incarnata
Plant Size: Floating leaves spread about 5 ft on water surface
Habitat: Aquatic. Marshes, swamps in openings, still water
Medicinal Uses: North Carolina listed the plant as a remedy against bronchial problems, sore throats, and dermatological ailments.
Contraindications: Alkaloids, and many tannins (dermatological interests) are present.
Florida Native Plant Society database entry for Nymphaea odorata Aiton
Atlas of Florida Plants database entry for Nymphaea odorata Aiton
Habitat: Cacti prefer well-drained, sandy, or rocky soils of sand dunes, pastures, woodlands, coastal hammocks, and mangrove swamps.
Medicinal Uses: Folklore (Indian and pioneer) medical applications were for treatments of lung, kidney, and urinary disorders.
Contraindications: CAUTION has many tiny spines with barbs.
Atlas of Florida Plants database entry for Opuntia humifusa
Habitat: Coastal strand, open areas in dry mesic hardwood forests, sometimes nestled under trees along sandy roadsides
Medicinal Uses: used for fever, for "the cooling of the blood," as a wash for skin irritations, to relieve constipation, and for worms in children.
Florida Native Plant Society database entry for Stachytarpheta jamaicensis
Atlas of Florida Plants database entry for Stachytarpheta jamaicensis
Habitat: In many habitats, but usually shaded; most common on fence lines, thickets, and well-drained woodlands.
Medicinal Uses: Southern fold remedy; berries, roots, and leaves steeped in a tea to treat dropsy, skin disorders, stomach disorders, and colic. he insect repellent properties of its terpenoid content (e.g. callicarpenal) are intriguing and potentially comparable to DEET (Cantrell et al. 2005; Cantrell & Klun 2011).
Florida Native Plant Society database entry for Callicarpa americana L.
Atlas of Florida Plants database entry for Callicarpa americana L.
Discussed in: Herbalism Shorts: Meet Beautyberry, Plant Identification, Florida Native Plants 20 Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Southeastern U.S.
Habitat: Prefers well drained to wet habitats such as moist woodlands and fields (sometimes flooded), and riverbanks.
Medicinal Uses: usage includes; emetic, cathartic, dyspepsia treatment, chronic rheumatism, and ringworm
Medicinal Preparation: eaten as a vegetable, or put in salads
Contraindications: Symptoms of misuse are extreme stomach upset and depressed breathing.
Florida Native Plant Society database entry for Phytolacca americana L.
Atlas of Florida Plants database entry for Phytolacca americana L.
Plant Size: 75-100 ft tall by 20-60 ft wide
Habitat: Usually in low, wet flatwoods of poorly drained, acidic soils, and coastal sands. National Champion of 1977 (var. densa) reached 55 feet tall, 11.5 feet circumference, with a 63 foot spread (Sarasota, Fla.).
Medicinal Uses: medical applications as a counter-irritant applied topically. Limited references imply the eating of inner bark for food during famine times.
Florida Native Plant Society database entry for Pinus elliottii
Atlas of Florida Plants database entry for Pinus elliottii
Plant Size: 40-80 ft tall by 40-100 ft wide
Habitat: Found in well drained to seasonally wet soils of edges of salt marshes, pastures, mixed woodlands, hammocks, and roadsides.
Medicinal Uses: uses include treating diarrhea, dysentery, hemorrhoids, sore throats, and skin ailments
Florida Native Plant Society database entry for Quercus virginiana Mill
Atlas of Florida Plants database entry for Quercus virginiana Mill
All counties besides bradford and columbia