Palmetto Article Index
A GROWING ARCHIVE OF INSIGHT, INSPIRATION, AND CONVERSATION
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| Author(s) | Article Title | Year | Vol. | No. | Pg # |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warren G. Abrahamson | Florida Scrub is Nuts (and Drupes): Fruit Production and Consumption in Florida's Fire-Prone, Xeric Uplands | 2025 | 41 | 2 | 4 |
| F.E. "Jack" Putz | Root Farming Pocket Gophers | 2025 | 41 | 1 | 12 |
| Athena Philips | 2025 FNPS Conference Preview | 2025 | 41 | 1 | 10 |
| Marc Minno | Polyphemus Moth Host Plant Results | 2025 | 41 | 1 | 9 |
| Natalia Manrique | 2024 FNPS Garden of Excellence: Celebrating Florida's Outstanding Native Landscapes |
2025 | 41 | 1 | 4 |
| Monaliza Bresko | From Turf to Treasure: How One Florida Yard Became a Blueprint for Change in an HOA Community | 2025 | 41 | 3 | 12 |
| Eugene Kelly | Advocating for Native Plant Conservation Yields Noteworthy Successes (Part 2) | 2025 | 41 | 3 | 9 |
| Jerald Pinson | The Key Largo Tree Cactus: The First Local Extinction in the United States Due to Sea Level Rise | 2025 | 41 | 3 | 4 |
| Roger L. Hammer | A New Orchid in Town | 2025 | 41 | 2 | 14 |
| Valerie Anderson & Eugene Kelly |
Advocating for Native Plant Conservation Yields Noteworthy Successes (Part 1) |
2025 | 41 | 2 | 9 |
| Patricia Burgos | Could Your Landscape Be the One? | 2023 | 39 | 2 | 2 |
| Marjorie Shropshire & Vincent Encomio |
Adapting to the Future: Sea Level Rise, Resilience, and Living Shorelines | 2023 | 39 | 1 | 12 |
| Cammie Donaldson (moderator); Jenny Evans, Danny Perkins, Bruce Turley, Heather Blake (panelists) | Florida's Native Plant Industry: Challenges and Opportunities | 2023 | 39 | 1 | 10 |
| Kenny Coogan | Growing Florida's Carnivorous Plants | 2023 | 39 | 1 | 8 |
| Patricia Burgos | The Florida Native Plant Society Landscape Awards are Back! | 2023 | 39 | 1 | 7 |
| Marc C. Minno | Discovering Host Plants of the Polyphemus Moth in Florida | 2023 | 39 | 1 | 4 |
| Eugene Kelly | Homegrown National Park | 2023 | 39 | 1 | 6 |
| Roger L. Hammer | Florida's Native Hibiscus | 2023 | 39 | 4 | 12 |
| George Rogers | Ludwigia Living Large Under the Ospreys | 2023 | 39 | 4 | 9 |
| Andee Naccarato & Dr. Aaron S. David |
Saving One of the Rarest Plants of Florida's Ancient Islands: The Conservation of Avon Park Harebells on the Lake Wales Ridge | 2023 | 39 | 4 | 4 |
| Leslie Nixon | Bee Friendly Using Florida Native Plants | 2023 | 39 | 3 | 8 |
| Lydia Cuni, Sabine Wintergerst, Samantha Walsdorf, & Jennifer Possley |
Got Milkweeds? Optimizing Cultivation and Increasing the Availability of Locally Rare Asclepias Species | 2023 | 39 | 3 | 4 |
| Richard H. Baker | Native Plants are for Everyone! | 2023 | 39 | 3 | 2 |
| Lauren Moscar | Who Cares About the Pond? Promoting Backyard Biodiversity Through Residential Landscaping | 2023 | 39 | 2 | 13 |
| David Roddenberry | The Native Plant Gardens at Sopchoppy Depot Park | 2023 | 39 | 2 | 8 |
| Harriet Festing & Stephen F. Eisenman |
A Modern House and Native Garden in Old Micanopy | 2023 | 39 | 2 | 4 |
| Roger L. Hammer | The Clustervines of Florida | 2022 | 38 | 3 | 14 |
| Roger L. Hammer | Pigeonwings and Butterfly Peas | 2022 | 38 | 4 | 14 |
| Raul Moas | A Plant Conservation Program with Amazing Outreach: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden's Conservation Team | 2022 | 38 | 4 | 8 |
| Lilly Anderson-Messec | Tropical Milkweed: Harmful to Monarchs and Florida Ecosystems | 2022 | 38 | 4 | 4 |
| Milton H. Diaz-Toribio & F.E. "Jack" Putz |
Time to Dig: Underground Storage Organs of Plants in Fire-Maintained Pine Savannas | 2022 | 38 | 3 | 10 |
| Jim Erwin | Eliane M. Norman: Questions, Mysteries, and Puzzles | 2022 | 38 | 3 | 8 |
| Kim Heise | Art and Science in Action | 2022 | 38 | 3 | 4 |
| (unknown) |
Lynda Davis Joins FNPS as Executive Director | 2022 | 38 | 3 | 2 |
| Jim Erwin | André Michaux in North America (book review) | 2022 | 38 | 2 | 14 |
| (unsigned) |
Florida's Native Hollies | 2022 | 38 | 2 | 10 |
| Linda Eastman & Leigh Goddeau |
Red Mangrove: Ecology of a Keystone Species (Part 2) | 2022 | 38 | 2 | 6 |
| Roger L. Hammer | The Purslanes of Florida | 2022 | 38 | 2 | 4 |
| Craig N. Huegel | The Palmetto Book (book review) | 2022 | 38 | 1 | 15 |
| Ginny Stibolt | The Inspiring Story of Crosby Sanctuary | 2022 | 38 | 1 | 12 |
| Kara and Blaine Baxter | Local Scout Receives a Rare Gift: A Native Orchid Botany Lab | 2022 | 38 | 1 | 10 |
| Karim Dawkins & Nwadiuto Esiobu |
Bioinoculants: A New Tool for Combating Plant Invasion | 2022 | 38 | 1 | 6 |
| Roger L. Hammer | Our Beloved Blanketflower | 2022 | 38 | 1 | 4 |
| Ginny Stibolt | Wax Myrtle (Morella cerifera) | 2020 | 36 | 1 | 2 |
| Jan Allyn | A Step-by-Step Guide to a Florida Native Yard (book review) | 2020 | 36 | 3 | 13 |
| Sydney Kenney | The Art of Native Ferns (illustration) | 2020 | 36 | 3 | 12 |
| Amanda Mikyska & Nash Turley |
Bringing Your Lawn Back to Life by Converting Turfgrass to Native Wildflowers | 2020 | 36 | 3 | 8 |
| Marjorie Shropshire | Sunshine Mimosa (Mimosa strigillosa) | 2020 | 36 | 3 | 14 |
| Cayley Buckner | Latrodectus bishopi: The Red Widow | 2020 | 36 | 3 | 4 |
| Sue Dingwell | Nature's Best Hope (book review) | 2020 | 36 | 2 | 12 |
| Ginny Stibolt | The Ecosystem Beneath Our Feet | 2020 | 36 | 2 | 9 |
| George Rogers | Paper Wasps as Pollinators | 2020 | 36 | 2 | 8 |
| Craig N. Huegel | Planting a Wildflower Meadow | 2020 | 36 | 2 | 4 |
| Roger L. Hammer | The Native Passionflowers of Florida | 2020 | 36 | 1 | 12 |
| Ginny Stibolt | Rethinking Florida's Urban Trees | 2020 | 36 | 1 | 8 |
| Craig Huegel | Meadows for Home Landscapes: More Than Just Wildflowers | 2020 | 36 | 1 | 4 |
| Ginny Stibolt | Books of Note: The Nature of Plants: An Introduction to How Plants Work | 2019 | 35 | 2 | 6 |
| Roger L. Hammer | Carlyle Luer (August 23, 1922 – November 9, 2019) | 2019 | 35 | 3 | 13 |
| George Rogers & John Bradford |
Red Mangroves, International Trees of Mystery | 2019 | 35 | 3 | 8 |
| Francis E. 'Jack' Putz & Nidhi Patel |
Florida Szechuan Pepper: A Financial Opportunity | 2019 | 35 | 3 | 4 |
| Linda Eastman | Building Chapter Success: Martin County Chapter | 2019 | 35 | 2 | 14 |
| Todd Angel, Hanna Rosner Katz, & Michael Jenkins |
Climate, Speciation, Rarity, and Beauty: The False Rosemaries of Florida | 2019 | 35 | 2 | 8 |
| Eric Draper | State Parks Benefit From Native Plant Expertise | 2019 | 35 | 2 | 4 |
| Jody L. Haynes | Research and Collecting Permit Information for Protected Native Plant Species in Florida | 2006 | 23 | 2 | 10 |
| Drs. James N. Layne & Warren G. Abrahamson |
Scrub Hickory: A Florida Endemic | 2006 | 23 | 2 | 4 |
| Dr. Valerie C. Pence | Propagating and Preserving Pawpaws (and Other Rare Species) from Florida | 2006 | 23 | 4 | 8 |
| Sid Taylor (compiled) | Biodiversity and Native Plant Genetics | 2006 | 23 | 4 | 6 |
| Dr. Francis E. Putz | Reading Your Landscape (Getting Started With Ecosystem Restoration, No. 2 in the Series) | 2006 | 23 | 4 | 4 |
| Nancy Kohfeldt | I Remember Rosemary | 2006 | 23 | 3 | 12 |
| Michael Wisenbaker | A Conversation With Dr. Ellie Whitney | 2006 | 23 | 3 | 10 |
| Rufino Osorio | The Wildflower Garden: Pine Hyacinth | 2006 | 23 | 3 | 8 |
| Dr. Francis E. Putz | Dancing With Pines: Perils and Joys of Ecosystem Restoration | 2006 | 23 | 3 | 4 |
| Jack B. Martin | Florida Ethnobotany (Book Review) | 2006 | 23 | 2 | 12 |
| Heidi Rhoades | The Evil Weevil and the No-Name Fly | 2006 | 23 | 2 | 8 |
| Rufino Osorio | American Black Nightshade (The Wildflower Garden: Number 2 in the Series) | 2004 | 23 | 1 | 9 |
| Paul Corogin& Francis E. Putz |
A Bog by the Highway: A Unique Flora Faces an Uncertain Future | 2004 | 23 | 1 | 6 |
| Roger L. Hammer | The Lantana Mess: A Critical Look at the Genus in Florida | 2004 | 23 | 1 | 19 |
| Dr. Dan Austin | Cordia: Discovering Florida's Ethnobotany (Number 12 in the Series) | 2004 | 23 | 1 | 12 |
| Chuck McCartney | Wild Love Affair: Essence of Florida's Native Orchids (Book Review) | 2004 | 23 | 1 | 11 |
| Cameron M. Donaldson | FNPS Publications: Where Do We Go From Here? (Letter from the Editor) | 2004 | 23 | 1 | 8 |
| Doris Rosebraugh | A Backyard Notebook: Satinleaf (Chrysophyllum oliviforme) | 1984 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Linda Conway Duever | Natural Communities: Seepage Communities (Seepage Slope, Baygall, Bog) | 1984 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Eve A. Hannahs | Butterfly Gardening with Native Plants | 1984 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| Steve Farnsworth | Psilotum nudum — Survivor of Eons | 1984 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Norman M. Moody | Saving Natives on Public School Property | 1984 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Bijan Dehgan | Book Review: Common Florida Angiosperm Plant Families, Part I, by Wendy B. Zomlefer | 1984 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| Robert B. Schuh & Ralph Bove |
Florida — The Lost Habitat [Sand Pine Scrub] | 1984 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| Marc and Maria Minno | Scrub Gopher Tortoise Preserve Proposed | 1984 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| Lewis L. Yarlett | Cutthroat Grass (Panicum abcissum) | 1984 | 4 | 1 | 11 |
| Hershell Womble | Florida Palms for Graceful Landscaping | 1984 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Doris Rosebraugh | A Backyard Notebook: Satinleaf | 1984 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Alan Herndon | Dade County Pinelands | 1984 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| Eve Hannahs | Native Plants and Butterflies | 1984 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| Eve Hannahs | Native Plants and Butterflies: The Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) | 1984 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| Steven M. Riefler | Exceptional Natives for Dune and Scrub Areas | 1984 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| Linda Conway Duever | Natural Communities of Florida's Rocklands: Pine Rockland and Rockland Hammock | 1984 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| Peggy Lantz | Coontie: The Handsomest of Native Plants | 1984 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Jeffrey L. Lincer | How to Save a Habitat | 1984 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Linda Conway Duever | Florida's Floodplains [Natural Communities series] | 1984 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| Dave Wilson | Saving the Palmetto | 1984 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| Terrance Mock | Palm Beach: Tropical Paradise or Expensive Illusion? | 1984 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| Doris Rosebraugh | A Backyard Notebook: Inkwood (Exothea paniculata) | 1984 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| Eve Hannahs | Native Plants and Butterflies | 1984 | 4 | 3 | 16 |
| Constance Fenimore Woolson | Yellow Jessamine [poem] | 1983 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| John H. Bigelow | Books: A Bibliographic Guide to Florida Native Plant Literature | 1983 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| David Drylie | Book Review: A Guide to the Vascular Plants of Central Florida, by Richard P. Wunderlin | 1983 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
| Joseph Cascio | Mini-Course in Plant Ecology | 1983 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
| John H. Parker | An Energy Analysis of Residential Landscapes | 1983 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| Captain K.C. Alvarez | Naples Conference Proceedings: Conservation Issues of the Fakahatchee Strand | 1983 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| Joseph Cascio | Guidelines: General Measurement Specification [companion to 'Transplanting the Big Tree'] | 1983 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| Joseph Cascio | Transplanting the Big Tree | 1983 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Doris Rosebraugh | A Backyard Notebook: Redberry Stopper (Eugenia confusa) | 1983 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Linda Conway Duever | Natural Communities of Florida's Inland Sand Ridges: Sandhill, Scrub, and Xeric Hammock | 1983 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Linda Duever (forthcoming series) | Natural Community Classification | 1983 | 3 | 2 | 12 |
| (unsigned) | Book Review: Ecological Use of the Land | 1983 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| (unsigned) | Book Review: Management of Native Vegetation Along Highway Rights-of-Way | 1983 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| Doris Rosebraugh | A Backyard Notebook: Florida Fiddlewood | 1983 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| Ann F. Johnson | Quercus inopina: the "Unthought-Of" Oak from South Central Florida | 1983 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Joe Cascio & Peggy Lantz |
Coming: Plant Ecology Mini-Course | 1983 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Steve Farnsworth | Transplanting the Wild | 1983 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Darrel G. Morrison | Restoration of Disturbed Sites | 1983 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Various speakers | Excerpts from Annual Conference III | 1983 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| [unknown] | The Biology of Trees Native to Tropical Florida [book review] | 1983 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| Carol S. Lotspeich | Florida Wild Flowers and Roadside Plants [book review] | 1983 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| Laura Brinkley | Who Knows the Rain? [book review] | 1983 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| Joe Cascio | A Native Garden | 1983 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| Bert T. Foster | More on Spanish Moss | 1983 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Linda Duever | Florida Natural Areas Inventory | 1983 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Doris Rosebraugh | A Backyard Notebook: Dahoon Holly (Second in a Series) | 1983 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Eve A. Hannahs | Garberia | 1983 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Daniel F. Austin | Hammocks | 1983 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Steve Farnsworth | Florida Elm: An Overlooked Native | 1983 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Melanie Darst | Sweet Princess of Far Florida: The Yellow Jessamine | 1983 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | Spring at the Creek | 1983 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| K. Terrance Mock | Water Experts Call for Native Vegetation | 1982 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Paul Lyrene | How to Grow Blueberries from Seed | 1982 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| Lewis Yarlett | Native Grasses for Florida Yards | 1982 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Eliane M. Norman & David Clayton | More on Pawpaws | 1982 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| Doris Rosebraugh | A Backyard Notebook: Wax Myrtle (First in a Series) | 1982 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| Judy Bates | Low Cost, Low Care | 1982 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| A.S. Jensen | Spanish Moss: Symbol of the Southland | 1982 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| Dick Workman | Native Plants in the Domestic Landscape (Book Review) | 1982 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| Dick Workman | Native Plants in the Domestic Landscape [book review] | 1982 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| Fred Landrum | Florida Native Plant Marketing & Information Service | 1982 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| Kathy L. Wolf | Rare Trees Discovered | 1982 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Paul Lyrene | Growing Native Blueberries | 1982 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Peggy Lantz | Preserving the Past | 1982 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Peggy S. Lantz | Henry Nehrling, Pioneer Florida Horticulturist | 1982 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Steve Riefler | How to Sprout a Hickory | 1982 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| Lewis L. Yarlett | Pineland Threeawn (Wiregrass) | 1982 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| Marcy R. Bartlett | Turkey Creek's Protean Paw Paw | 1982 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Dr. Kenneth R. Langdon | Florida Law on Endangered Plants | 1982 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Frances Howard | How to Save a Sand Dune | 1982 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Gertrude W. Cole | Scrub Palmetto, or Sabal etonia | 1982 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| Greg Bretz | Florida Plants for Florida Birds | 1982 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Joseph A. Cascio | Education Is First | 1982 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Paul and Sherry Cummings | Six Hundred Miles of Native Plants | 1982 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Daniel F. Austin | 1981 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| Paul and Sherry Cummings | Stamp Out Brazilian Pepper! | 1981 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| Kathy Sample | Bartram Lives Again! | 1981 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| K. Terrance Mock | Which Comes First? Supply or Demand? | 1981 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| Faith T. Campbell | The Endangered Species Act / The Lacey Act | 1981 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| Marie B. Mellinger | The Loss of Beauty | 1981 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| Taylor R. Alexander | An Exotic Plant Pest: Downy Rosemyrtle (Rhodomyrtus tomentosa) |
1981 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Allen B. Burdett, Jr. | Florida Does Too Have an Autumn! | 1981 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| K. Terrance Mock | How to Get Developers to Wear "White Hats" | 1981 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| Bunnie Graham | William Bartram, Florida Native Plant Enthusiast | 1981 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| Gail S. Baker | Notes on the Federal Endangered Species Act | 1981 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Rob Brown | How to Kill a Perennial Grass | 1981 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Lewis L. Yarlett | Cutthroat Grass, A Unique Native Grass | 1981 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Mildred Sias (as told to Peggy Lantz) | The Needle Palm | 1981 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Dr. Robert J. Black | Be a Water-Saver! | 1981 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Bill Partington | 1981 | 1 | 2 | 10 | |
| A.S. (Tony) Jensen | 1981 | 1 | 2 | 9 | |
| (unsigned) | 1981 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Harold J. Nett | 1981 | 1 | 2 | 8 | |
| Lewis L. Yarlett | 1981 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |
| Dave Wilson | 1981 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| Donna Legare | 1981 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| Carolyn Ruesch & Michael Green |
1981 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| Norma Jeanne Byrd | 1981 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| Peggy Lantz | The Florida Native Plant Society's Conference Was a Clamoring Success |
1981 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Ken Morrison | 1981 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| (unsigned) | 1981 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |
| Peggy S. Lantz | 1981 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
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