Date: 08/15/2022

Number: 1

This beach garden developed with the removal of invasive scaevola taccada. Immediately, native wildflowers and plants filled in the free space:

1. Seagrape Trees, nectar pant for statira sulphur butterflies, fruits attract birds
2. Saw Palmetto, attracts birds
3. Dune Sunflower, a top plant in our zip code for pollinators
4. Coinvine, host plant for Statira Sulfur Butterflies
5. Burrowing Four o’çlock, grows in only five counties in Florida
6. Beach Evening Primrose, host and nectar plants for butterflies
7. Wild Cowpea, host plant for four types of butterflies, also a nectar flower
8. Sidepeak Pencil Flower, host plant for sulphur butterflies and a nectar flower
9. Painted Leaf (wild poinsettia), nectar and pollen flower
10. Downy Milkpea, host plant for Cassius Blue Butterflies
11. Saltwort, sand stabilizer and host plant for Great Southern White and Pygmy Blue Butterflies
12. Three-Way Sedge
13. Bidens Alba, host plant of the Dainty Sulfur Butterfly and a top plant for pollinators
14. Corky Stemmed Passion Flower, host plant to the Gulf Fritillary and Zebra Longwing Butterflies.
15. Beach Elder (SHOWN IN PICTURE), dune builder, endangered plant, grows in only 6 counties in Florida
16. Spanish Bayonet, nectar flower
17. Bay Cedar, host plant for Hairstreak Butterflies
18. Beach Bean, nectar plant
Beach Morning Glory, nectar plant
19. Railroad Vine, nectar plant
20. Yellowtop, nectar plant
21. Pink Moss Rose
22. Beach Star, binds sand

(12/26/22 HS)

Pompano Beach, FL

Latitude: 26.2 Longitude: -80.1

Observed by: Heidi
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