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- White waterlillies
- Bladderwort
- Sedges and grasses
- Sawgrass
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- Dahoon holly
- Red bays
- Willows
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Hardwood hammocks are
sometimes described as "tree islands." They are small areas, usually less
than 20 hectares, and are found on ground that's slightly higher than the
surrounding landscape. They typically have rich organic soil and rarely
flood or burn. Vegetation is thick and includes thickets of saw
palmetto. White-tailed deer are often abundant in hardwood hammocks.
In the fall and winter wild
hogs feed in hammocks on acorns and saw palmetto berries.
Birds: chuck
will's widow, pied-bill grebes. Mammals:
black bear,
bobcat, cotton
rat, fox squirrel, gray squirrel, opossum, raccoon,
short-tailed shrew, white-tailed
deer, wild
hog. Reptiles and Amphibians:
black racer, five-lined skink, Florida box turtle, green
anole, pygmy rattlesnake, southern ringneck snake, threatened
eastern indigo
snake. Invertebrates:
ants, Florida
tree snail, golden
orb weaver, mosquitoes, ruddy daggerwing butterfly, zebra
longwing butterfly.
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More than 150 species of trees and shrubs: bromeliads,
cabbage palm,
cocoplum, devil's
claw, ferns, gumbo
limbo, hackberry, lancewood, laurel oak, live oak, mahogany,
myrsine, orchids,
pigeon plum, poison ivy, poisonwood, red bay, royal palm, saw
palmetto, Spanish moss, Spanish stopper, strangler
fig, wax myrtle, white stopper, wild coffee.
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