Mangrove swamp
There are 38 taxa reported for the Mangrove swamp habitat.
A short description of the Mangrove Swamp community from The Florida Natural Areas Inventory (FNAI) is “estuarine wetland on muck/sand/or limestone substrate; inundated with saltwater by daily tides; central peninsula and Keys; no fire; dominated by mangrove and mangrove associate species; red mangrove, black mangrove, white mangrove, buttonwood.” A full description can be found in FNAI’s 2010 Guide to the Natural Communities of Florida.
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South Florida Native Status: |
Acrostichum aureum |
Golden leather fern |
Native
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Acrostichum danaeifolium |
Giant leather fern |
Native
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Atriplex cristata |
Beach orach, Crested saltbush |
Native
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Avicennia germinans |
Black mangrove |
Native
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Batis maritima |
Saltwort, Turtleweed |
Native
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Borrichia arborescens |
Green sea-oxeye-daisy, Tree seaside oxeye |
Native
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Borrichia frutescens |
Silver sea-oxeye-daisy, Bushy seaside oxeye |
Native
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Casuarina equisetifolia |
Australian-pine, Horsetail casuarina |
Not Native, Naturalized
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Catopsis berteroniana |
Powdery strap airplant |
Native
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Conocarpus erectus |
Buttonwood |
Native
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Cynodon dactylon var. dactylon |
Bermuda grass |
Not Native, Naturalized
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Cyrtopodium punctatum |
Cowhorn orchid, Cigar orchid |
Native
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Dalbergia brownei |
Brown’s Indian rosewood |
Native
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Encyclia tampensis |
Florida butterfly orchid |
Native
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Fimbristylis cymosa |
Hurricane sedge, Hurricanegrass |
Not Native, Naturalized
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Funastrum clausum |
Whitevine, White twinevine |
Native
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Laguncularia racemosa |
White mangrove |
Native
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Limonium carolinianum |
Saltmarsh-rosemary, Carolina sealavender |
Native
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Lycium carolinianum |
Christmasberry, Carolina desertthorn |
Native
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Pandanus tectorius |
Pandanus palm, Thatch screw-pine, Tahitian screw-pine |
Not Native, Cultivated Only
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Pavonia paludicola |
Mangrove mallow, Swampbush |
Native
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Pleopeltis marginata |
Ribbon fern |
Native
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Prosthechea boothiana var. erythronioides |
Dollar orchid |
Native
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Rhabdadenia biflora |
Mangrove rubbervine, Mangrovevine |
Native
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Rhipsalis baccifera |
Mistletoe cactus |
Native
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Rhizophora mangle |
Red mangrove |
Native
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Sarcocornia perennis |
Perennial glasswort |
Native
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Schinus terebinthifolius |
Brazilian-pepper |
Not Native, Naturalized
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Sesuvium portulacastrum |
Perennial sea-purslane, Shoreline seapurslane |
Native
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Tillandsia balbisiana |
Reflexed wild-pine |
Native
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Tillandsia fasciculata var. densispica |
Stiff-leaved wild-pine, Cardinal airplant |
Native
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Tillandsia flexuosa |
Banded wild-pine, Twisted airplant |
Native
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Tillandsia paucifolia |
Twisted wild-pine, Potbelly airplant |
Native
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Tillandsia recurvata |
Ball-moss |
Native
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Tillandsia usneoides |
Spanish-moss |
Native
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Tillandsia utriculata |
Giant wild-pine, Giant airplant |
Native
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Tillandsia x smalliana |
Reddish wild-pine |
Native
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Vanilla barbellata |
Wormvine orchid |
Native
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