Other useful places to find out more about your plants & shrubs:
"Floridata"
is a commercial website and features hundreds of Plant Profile pages
which are descriptions, cultural instructions and photographs of many of
our most popular landscape and garden plants. Each Profile contains
small pictures, called icons, that are displayed below the name of the
plant. These icons provide a visual summary of the plant's
characteristics. Floridata groups these into two groups, "Type and
Features."
The Institute
of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) develops knowledge
in Agricultural Resources, Human Resources, Natural Resources, Life
Sciences and makes that knowledge accessible to sustain and enhance the
quality of human life. This website has a great Information Center
which includes topics such as Children's Gardening, Floriculture,
Foliage,
Home Gardening,
Turfgrass, Trees &
Shrubs, and a tremendous set of Plant
Information Databases.
The USDA's PLANTS Database
provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses,
liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It
includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species
abstracts, characteristics, images, plant links, references, crop
information, and automated tools.
This site is a visually useful
list of plants and trees at the Gillespie
Museum in Deland, Florida at Stetson University. It lists
alphabetically by both Latin and common names plant species native to
Florida. This listing is based on a variety of sources and each species
is designated as native to this area by at least one authoritative
source.