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What’s Blooming at Babcock Webb?

Spanish Needle (Bidens Alba)

It always amazes me how many different flowers are blooming each time I visit a familiar, local to me place like the Babcock Webb Wildlife Management Area. Here’s a sampling of what I saw today in just a small area of the park.

Common lantana (Lantana camera)
Bretonica peluda (Melochia spicata)
Sweet shaggytuft (Stenandrium dulce)
St. John’s wort
Musky mint (Hypatis alata)
Duck potato (Sagittaria lanciflora)
Tropical milkweed (Asclepius curassavica)
Primrose-willow
Bitter weed (Helenium amarum)
Black-eyed Susans
Shrubby false buttonweed (Spermacoce verticillata)
Bristle thistle (Cirsium horridulum)
Florida bluehearts (Buchnera floridana)
Baldwin’s milkwort (Polygala balduinii)
Frog fruit (Phyla lanceolata)
St. John’s wort
Large flower rose gentian (Sabatia grandiflora)
Whitetop sedge (Rhynchospora colorata)
Spanish needle (Bidens alba)
Leavenworth’s tickseed (Coreopsis leavenworthii)
Carolina ruellia (Ruellia caroliniensis)
Oakleaf fleabane (Erigeron quercifolius)
Showy milkwort (Asemia grandiflora)
Marsh fleabane Pluchea odorata)
Baldwin’s milkwort
Pineland heliotrope (Euploca polyphylla)
Florida iron weed (Vernonia blodgetti)
Marsh pink (Sabatia stellaris)

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