Trees of Florida: Common Names
The trees listed in the table below are listed alphabetically by common name.
Please also see the alphabetical listing by tree family.
A
- American beautyberry
- American beech
- American elm
- American holly
- American hornbeam, blue beech, ironwood, musclewood
- Atlantic whitecedar
B
- Baldcypress
- Basswood, linden
- Bitternut hickory
- Blackberry
- Black cherry
- Black gum
- Black walnut
- Bluejack oak
- Bluff oak
- Boxelder
- Buttonbush
C
- Cabbage palm
- Camphor tree
- Carolina ash, pop ash
- Carolina laurelcherry
- Carolina willow
- Chinkapin
- Choctowhatchee sand pine
- Common persimmon
D
E
F
G
H
J
L
M
O
P
R
S
- Sand live oak
- Saw-palmetto
- Scrub palm
- Shortleaf pine
- Shumard oak
- Silver maple
- Slash pine
- South Florida slash pine
- Southern magnolia
- Southern red oak
- Spruce pine
- Stagger-bush
- Sugarberry
- Swampbay
- Swamp chestnut oak
- Swamp titi
- Swamp tupelo
- Sweetbay
- Sweetgum
- Sycamore
T
W
- Water hickory
- Water oak
- Water tupelo
- Wax Myrtle
- White ash
- White oak
- Wild olive, devilwood
- Winged elm
Y
References
Godfrey, R.K. 1988. Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Northern Florida and Adjacent Georgia and Alabama. University of Georgia Press, Athens. 734 pp.
Godfrey, R.K. and J.W. Wooten. 1981. Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States - Dicotyledons. University of Georgia Press, Athens. 933 pp.
Harrar E.S. and J.G. Harrar. 1962. Guide to Southern Trees. Dover Publications, Inc., New York. 709 pp.
More Tree ID Web Sites
- UF/IFAS Sites
- 4-H Forest Trees and Plants
- State & Federal Agencies
- Forest Trees of Florida--Division of Forestry
- USDA PLANT Database
- Other University Sites
- Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants--USF
- Tree Fact Sheets--Virginia Tech
- Organizations & Associations
- Flora of North America