Rare Plants
Natural communities within the Apalachicola River WEA are home
to a number of rare plants. Pictured is white-birds-in-a-nest
with its distinct showy white flowers that bloom from May to mid-July.
Listed as endangered by Florida and threatened by the federal
government, white-birds-in-a-nest(1) is endemic to wet to mesic
flatwoods in the Florida panhandle. Other rare plants in or adjacent
to the Apalachicola River WEA include West's flax(2), a member
of the mint family with pretty, pale yellow flowers that bloom
from May through July; Carolina grass-of-parnassus (3), a perennial
herb that produces a solitary white, veined flower in November,
and Florida skullcap(4), an odorless mint endemic to the Apalachicola
River lowlands with inch-long blue-purple flowers that bloom from
April through May.
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(1) Gary Knight
White-birds-in-a-nest
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(2) FNAI
West's flax
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(3) Gary Knight
Carolina grass-of-parnassus
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(4) Gil Nelson
Florida skullcap
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