Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys
Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys
Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys
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Scientific Name:<br />
Common Name(s):<br />
Hibiscus tiliaceus<br />
Sea Hibiscus<br />
Height:<br />
Leaves:<br />
Flowers:<br />
Bark:<br />
Fruit:<br />
O<strong>the</strong>r:<br />
Treatment:<br />
Up to 40 feet<br />
Large and nearly round heart-shaped leaves, dark green above and light<br />
green and downy below, can reach six inches in diameter<br />
Five-petaled, funnel shaped yellow flowers with deep maroon centers. Turn<br />
orange-red. Continuously flowering.<br />
N/A<br />
Seed capsules are one inch long, elliptical and five-parted. Capsules split<br />
open at maturity to release large black seeds.<br />
Large shrub or spreading tree has a dense, hemispherical crown. Can grow in<br />
wet, salty soils as well as dry ground.<br />
Stump with 50% Garlon 3A applied immediately upon cutting<br />
www.plantatlas.usf.edu<br />
www.co.miami-dade.fl.us/derm/badplants.htm<br />
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