Hike Bike Paddle Camp Florida with authors Sandra Friend and John Keatley as your guides
Basic information and photos to help you identify specific plants, wildflowers, trees, birds, and wildlife in Florida.
One of Florida’s showiest wildflowers, the swamp sunflower (Helianthus angustifolius) comes into its glory in numerous locations around the state in the fall
One of the easier trees to pick out while walking through the hardwood forests of the Appalachians, the tulip poplar has distinctive tulip-blossom shaped leaves and a large and extremely showy flower. It’s found in Florida as south as Winter Springs.
Called curlew by native Floridians, the white ibis is a wading bird that tends to browse and travel in flocks. It is one of the more common wading birds you’ll see in Florida.
White mangroves are the most tree-like of the mangrove family. They have oval light green leaves—the other mangroves have dark green, elliptical leaves.
Frequently seen along the trail and in open areas in scrub habitats, wild pennyroyal (Piloblephis rigida) is a showy wildflower found in Florida’s peninsula.
The only true stork native to North America, the wood stork can have a wingspan of over five feet. Once highly threatened due to habitat loss in its nesting areas, it’s made a spectacular comeback
