Low-Maintenance Landscape Plants for South Florida

This document is ENH854, a publication of the Department of Agronomy, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date December 2001. Revised February 2025. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication. © 2025 UF/IFAS. This publication is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Cliff G. Martin, conservation scientist/forester II, Department of Agronomy, UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center; Jody Haynes, research associate, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, FL; John McLaughlin, urban horticulture program assistant (deceased), UF/IFAS Extension Miami-Dade County; Laura Vasquez, Extension agent I, B.S., UF/IFAS Extension Miami-Dade County; Adrian Hunsberger, retired Extension agent IV, M.S., urban horticulture, UF/IFAS Extension Miami-Dade County; and Zachary Brym, associate professor, agroecology, Department of Agronomy, UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.