Endangered & Threatened Plants at the EMB

Common Name

Scientific Name

Endangered:

Golden leather fern

Acrostichum aureum

Green-flowered milkweed

Asclepias viridiflora

Keys hairy-podded spurge

Chamaesyce porteriana var. keyensis

Jacquemontia *

Jacquemontia curtissii

Threatened:

Butterfly orchid

Encyclia tampensis

Ironwood

Eugenia confusa

Wild coco

Eulophia alta

Giant Sword Fern

Nephrolepis biserrata

Golden polypody (Fern)

Phlebodium aureum

Butterwort

Pinguicula pumilla

Whisk fern

Psilotum nudum

Brake fern

Pteris vittata

Bay cedar

Suriana maritima

West Indian mahogany

Swietenia mahogani

Abrupt-tipped maiden fern

Thelypteris augescens

Inflated wild pine

Tillandsia balbisiana

Air plant

Tillandsia circinata

Twisted air plant

Tillandsia flexuosa

Worm-vine orchid

Vanilla barbellata

Unscented vanilla

Vanilla mexicana

Shoestring fern

Vittaria lineata

Commercially exploited:

Dahoon holly

Ilex cassine

Royal fern

Osmunda regalis v. spectabilis

Cinnamon fern

Osmunda cinnamomea

Common air plant

Tillandsia fasciculata

Giant wild pine

Tillandsia utriculata

Silver palm

Coccothrinax argentata

Candidate for federal listing:

Florida privet

Forestiera segregata

Worm-vine orchid

Vanilla barbellata

Unscented vanilla

Vanilla mexicana

* Species federally protected under the Endangered Species Act