Electricity & Our Environment

Plants at the EMB

The Everglades Mitigation Bank is invaluable due to its numerous listed plant species protected by federal and state law. At least eight (8) major vegetative zones occur on the site and these, when combined with the tree islands, provide habitat for a vast array of common, as well as protected, plant species.

Protected Plant List

Common Name

Scientific Name

Golden leather fern

Acrostichum aureum

Fragrant maidenhair fern

Adiantum melanoleucum

Alvaradoa

Alvaradoa amorphoides

Blodgett's wild mercury

Argythamnia blodgettii

Airplant

Catopsis berteroniana

Garber's spurge

Chamaesyce garberi

Cuban snakebark

Colubrina cubensis

Geiger tree

Cordia sebestena

Cow-horn orchid

Cyrtopodium punctatum

Red stopper

Eugenia rhombea

Wild cotton

Gossypium hirsutum

Manichinel

Hippomane mancinella

Krug's holly

Ilex krugiana

Pineland jacquemontis

Jacquemontia curtissii

Pineland lantana

Lantana depressa

Hand fern

Ophioglossum palmatum

Peperomia

Peperomia humilis

Ghost orchid

Polyradicion lindenii

Hog plum

Pseudophoenix sargentii

Mistletoe cactus

Phipsalis baccifera

Worm-vine orchid

Vanilla barbellata

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