Rare Plants Flyr's brickell bush (state, endangered)
Joe Budd has an exemplary population of Flyr's brickell bush, a perennial herb with numerous purplish-pink flowers. Usually found in sunny openings in dry, upland pine-oak woods and on ravine slopes, Flyr's brickell bush flowers from late August through early September.
Pyramid magnolia (state, endangered)
Also called the umbrella tree, the pyramid magnolia is easily identified by its distinctive leaves that spread from the tips of its branches. A resident of Joe Budd's slope forest, the pyramid magnolia produces fragrant, white flowers in the spring.
Silky-camellia (state, endangered)
From a distance the rare and beautiful silky-camilla looks like a dogwood. In Florida the silky-camilla is only found on ravine slopes in the Panhandle. This deciduous shrub blooms in mid-April.
Photos by Don Francis
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Trout lily
In February 2002, Joe Budd biologist Don Francis discovered a large population of trout lilies blooming in the slope forest along the Little River. Although common in northern hardwood forests, the trout lily, also known as the dogtooth violet is extremely rare in Florida.
Alabama azalea (state, endangered)
Ashe's magnolia (state, endangered)
Bent golden aster Florida merrybells
Gulf spikemoss
Heart-leaved willow (state, endangered)
Heartleaf (state, threatened)
Indian cucumber root
Orange azalea (state, endangered)
Scare-weed
Wiregrass gentian (state, endangered)
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