With native plantings its all about matching the plant to the location. Here is a listing of Florida native plants and cultivars of those native plants that are well suited to the areas of the Northeast Florida Landscape and can thrive in moist to wet areas where other plants would fail
Alligatorflag / Thalia geniculata
Arrowhead / sagittaria
Bacopa / Water Hyssop / Bacopa monnieri
Buttonbush / cephalanthus occidentalis
American Holly / Ilex Opaca
Ash Tree / Fraxinus pennsylvanica
Bald Cypress Tree / Taxodium Distichum
Black Gum Tree / Nyssa sylvatica
Blue Eyed Grass / Blue eyed Iris / Sisyrinchium angustifolium
Blue Flag Iris / Iris virginica
Blue Skyflower / Hydrolea corymbrose
Cardinal Flower / Lobelia cardinalis
Carolian Redroot / Lachnanthes caroliana
Cinnamon Fern / Osmundastrum cinnamomeum
Climbing Aster / Ampelaster carlinianus
Eastern False Dragonhead / Phsostegia purpurea
Elliots Aster / Symphyotrichum elliottii
Gayfeather / Liatris spicata
Fakahatchee Grass / Tripsicu capillaris
Fakahatchee Dwarf Grass / Tripsicum floridanum
Fringe Tree / Chionanthus virginicus
Florida Maple / Acer floridanum
Florida Elm/ Ulmus americana var floridana
Horsetial / Equisetum hyemal
Inkberry / Gallberry shrub / Ilex glabra
Leather Fern / acrostichum danaeifolium
Lemon Bacopa / Bacopa caroliniana
Live Oak Tree/ Quercus virginiana
Lizard’s Tail / Saururs cernuus
Meadow garlic / Allium canadense
Milkweed Swamp Pink / Ascleipias incarnata
Milkweed Swamp White / Asclepias perennis
Mistflower / Conoclinium coelestinum
Muhly Grass/ Muhlenbergia capillaris
Needle Palm / Rhapidophyllum hysterix
Oak Leaf Hydrangea / Hydrangea quercifolia
Pale Meadowbeauty / Rhexia mariana
Pickerelweed / Pontederia lanceolata
Pineland Hibiscus/ Comfortroot / Hibiscus aculeatus
Pond Cypress Tree / Taxodium ascendens
Prarie Iris / Iris savannarum
Red Buckeye Tree / Aesculus pavia
Red Maple Tree
River Birch Tree / Betula nigra
Saint Johns Mint / Brownes Savory / Clinopodium Brownei
Salt marsh Cordgrass / saltmeadow cordgrass / Spartina patens
Saltmarsh Mallow / Kosteletzyka pentacarpos
Sand Cordgrass / Spartina bakeri
Scarlet Hibiscus Red / Hibiscus coccineus
Seaside Goldenrod / Solidago sempervirens
Shumard Oak Tree/ Quercus shumardii
Southern maidenhair Fern / Adiantum capillus-veneris
Southern Magnolia Tree
Spider Lily / Hymenocallis latifolia
Swamp Crinum Lily / Crinum americanum
Swamp Mallow /Swamp Hibiscus/ Swamp Rosemallow / Dinner plate Hibiscus/ Hardy hibiscus / (Hibiscus moscheutos)
Swamp Rosemallow Hibiscus / Hibiscus grandiflorus
Sweetbay Magnolia Tree / (Magnolia virginiana)
Sweetshrub / Calycanthus floridaus
Sweetspire / Itea virginica
Sycamore Tree/ Platanus virginiana
Titi / Leatherwood Shrub / Cyrilla racemiflora
Tulip Poplar Tree / Liriodendron tulipifera
Turkey tangle Frogfruit Groundcover / Phyla nodiflora
Violet Wild / Viola seroria
Violet white Bog / Viola lanceolata
Walters Viburnum Mrs. Schillers
Wood Sage / Teucrium canadense
Yaupon Holly Upright / Ilex vomitoria
Yaupon Holly Weeping/ Ilex vomitoria
Yellow Canna / canna flaccida