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Native Plants & Flowers of Alabama

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    Rudbeckia hirta

    • The black-eyed Susan and brown-eyed Susan are common flowering plants in the Aster family, native to Alabama and other states. Flowers resemble daisies and are 2 to 3 inches wide and golden yellow with black or brown centers. It's a prairie biennial that blooms from June through October in its second year of life.

    White Cedar

    • The tree known as the Atlantic white cedar, or Chamaecyparis thyoides, is a fairly large juniper-type plant that grows in the wetlands of Alabama and North Carolina. Trees grow into a tight column shape. Its leaves provide the only food that the rare Hessel's hairstreak butterfly larvae eat.

    Alabama Leather Flower

    • The American bells, or Clematis socialis, is a federally listed endangered species. It is both an erect herb and a flowering plant that occurs in the Ridge and Valley regions of northern Alabama and northwest Georgia. Only five known populations of this species remain in Alabama, with one in Georgia.

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