Threatened and Endangered Plants

The park contains the largest known population of Florida semaphore cactus.

Image by Arend Thibodeau

The following plants are listed as threatened or endangered, and are confirmed or suspected to be in the park. If you are lucky enough to observe any of then during your visit to the park, cherish the sighting but please do not harm the plant. Any interference with these plants is strictly prohibited.

The list below includes plants that are likely to be in the park. Visitors are encouraged to report their sightings here. Please provide as much information as possible such as date, location, number, size, species, and any photos.

Visit the park's endangered animal page, federal listing and state listing for more information on threatened and endangered species.

Common Name(s)	Federal Classification Listing	State Classification Listing
Bahama ladder brake	-	Threatened
Banded wild-pine (Twisted airplant)	-	Threatened
Beach jacquemontia	Endangered	Endangered
Beach peanut	-	Endangered
Blacktorch	-	Threatened
Brown’s Indian rosewood	-	Endangered
Butterflybush (Curacao bush)	-	Endangered
Caribbean princewood	-	Endangered
Cinnamon bark (Pepper cinnamon)	-	Endangered
Cinnecord	-	Endangered
Climbing vine fern	-	Endangered
Coffee colubrina (Greenheart)	-	Endangered
Coral pancium	-	Endangered
Darlingplum	-	Threatened
Dildoe cactus	-	Threatened
Dollar orchid	-	Endangered
Erect pricklypear	-	Threatened
Florida boxwood	-	Endangered
Florida Keys blackbead	-	Threatened
Florida mayten	-	Threatened
Giant wild-pine (Giant airplant)	-	Endangered
Golden leather fern	-	Threatened
Green thatch palm (Florida thatch palm)	-	Endangered
Guiana plum	-	Threatened
Havana greenbrier (Everglades greenbrier)	-	Threatened
Ironwood (Redberry stopper)	-	Endangered
Joewood	-	Threatened
Johnson’s seagrass	Threatened	-
Lignumvitae	-	Endangered
Locustberry	-	Threatened
Mahogany mistletoe	-	Endangered
Manchineel	-	Endangered
Mangrove mallow (Swampbush)	-	Endangered
Marsh’s dutchman’s pipe	-	Endangered
Milkbark (Whitewood)	-	Endangered
Mullein nightshade	-	Threatened
Nakedwood (Soldierwood)	-	Endangered
Parasitic ghostplant	-	Endangered
Paurotis palm	-	Threatened
Pearlberry (Tearshrub)	-	Endangered
Pinepink	-	Threatened
Porter’s sandmat	-	Endangered
Prickly applecactus	-	Endangered
Red stopper	-	Endangered
Reflexed wild-pine (Northern needleleaf)	-	Threatened
Sargent’s cherry palm (Buccaneer palm)	-	Endangered
Satinleaf	-	Threatened
Sea lavender	-	Endangered
Semaphore cactus	Candidate	Endangered
Silver palm	-	Threatened
Silver thatch palm (Brittle thatch palm)	-	Endangered
Simpson’s applecactus	-	Endangered
Smooth strongback (Bahama strongbark)	-	Endangered
Southern fogfruit	-	Endangered
Spicewood	-	Threatened
Stiff-leaved wild-pine (Cardinal airplant)	-	Endangered
Swartz’s snoutbean	-	Endangered
Twindberry (Simpson’s stopper)	-	Threatened
West Indian cock’s comb	-	Endangered
West Indian mahogany	-	Threatened
West Indian trema (Pain-in-the-back)	-	Endangered
Whiteflower passionflower	-	Endangered
Wild cotton (upland cotton)	-	Endangered
Wild dilly	-	Threatened
Yellow nicker bean	-	Endangered