Renewal: Going Native, revisited – Online Gallery & Silent Auction
A follow-up to its popular 2018 exhibition, the Photo Centre’s new artistic offering presents more than five dozen amazing prints, many of which are available for purchase by the highest bidder. All the proceeds from this silent auction will go to benefit the conservation efforts of the Palm Beach County Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society.
“Photographs in the exhibition range from exquisite close-ups of flowers and butterflies to mysterious landscapes, and from stunning, rare orchids to surprisingly beautiful, common tillandsias; experience the joy and aliveness of the native landscape.”
The photographers who are focused on the beauty of Florida’s native landscape include Kevin Barry, Donna Bollenbach, Richard Brownscombe, Christina Evans, George Gann, Roger Hammer, Kirsten Hines, Craig Huegel, Teri Jabour, Mary Keim, Susan Kolterman, Susan Lerner, Don Marchetto, Chuck McCartney, Rufino Osorio, Rebecca Sabac, Loret Setters and Peg Urban.
HOW TO BID
You can place your bid here. The images you are biding on are the actual exhibit prints being auctioned as is. After you place your bid you may pick up your image during normal business hours 10:00 am – 5:00 pm at the Photographic Centre, or we can bring it to the next Palm Beach County Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society meeting.
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Spatterdock
Lot 1 – Starting Bid $250.00
Spatterdock is sometimes confused with fragrant water lily, however it has heart-shaped leaves without a center slit and a round, yellow flower that looks like it’s not quite open. While the leaves and flowers appear to float freely in the water, the plant is actually rooted to the bottom via rhizomes, or underground stems.
Spanish Bayonet
Lot 2 – Starting Bid $75.00
Spanish Bayonet is found in coastal forests, thickets and grasslands. It provides food and cover for wildlife. It is a larval
host plant for Cofaqui Giant Skipper and Yucca Giant Skipper butterflies. and a nectar plant for Great Southern White and other butterflies.
Scrub Morning Glory
Lot 3 – Starting Bid $150.00
Scrub Morning Glory once occurred in scrubs throughout much of peninsular Florida, but is now listed as a threatened
species due to the continuing loss of scrub habitat to development and agriculture. Look for the beautiful blossoms of
Scrub Morning Glory in summer.
Sea Lavender
Lot 4 – Starting Bid $150.00
Sea Lavender is an excellent specimen or accent shrub in open coastal areas or directly on beach dunes. This nectar
plant for butterflies is a beautiful shrub for oceanfront gardens but is susceptible to diseases inland. It is listed as endangered by the state of Florida.
Drumheads
Lot 5 – Starting Bid $250.00
Drumheads are found throughout most of Florida. The bright pink flower cluster is made up of spikey pink sepals enclosing tiny yellow flowers. The sepals remain for several weeks after the flowers fade. The scientific name Polygala (meaning much milk) refers to the idea that cows that graze in the grass where the Drumheads grow will produce more milk; cruciate refers to the cross like pattern of the leaves. Drumheads like moist, open habitats.
Fragrant Rosebud Orchid
Lot 6 – SOLD
The fragrant flowers of this striking native orchid grace open meadows across the Florida panhandle south into north-
central Florida, where it flowers in spring and early summer.
Longleaf Pine
Lot 7 – Starting Bid $250.00
Tall trees, like this Longleaf Pine, provide sturdy branches for large birds like these Black-bellied Whistling Ducks to
roost on a fall morning.
Green Antelopehorn
Lot 8 – Starting Bid $150.00
Green Antelopehorn is one of the prettiest of the 21 native milkweed species in Florida. It occurs in only nine Florida counties, from the central panhandle to the Florida Keys. Like other milkweeds, it serves as a larval host for Monarch and Queen butterflies.
Bahaman Aster
Lot 9 – Starting Bid $150.00
Bahaman Aster is a 5 feet tall annual or biennial, with delicate, tiny flowers born on the ends of long thin branches.
The larvae of Syrphid Flies are important predators, feeding primarily on aphids. In turn, Syrphid Fly larvae is a food source for several species of wasps as well as birds, frogs and reptiles.
Scarlet Hibiscus
Lot 10 – Starting Bid $250.00
The Scarlet Hibiscus is a tall, perennial wildflower that occurs naturally in wet areas throughout Florida, often towering above Maidencane and Pickerelweed, flowering from late spring to fall. The blooms are attractive to butterflies, hummingbirds and other pollinators.
Swamp Milkweed
Lot 11 – Starting Bid $150.00
Swamp Milkweed occurs in a variety of wetland habitats from south central to north Florida and is often found on the
edges of lakes and rivers. Florida gardeners are encouraged to plant this and other native milkweeds (instead of the non-native tropical milkweed) to support healthy Monarch butterfly populations.
Sleepy Hibiscus
Lot 12 – Starting Bid $75.00
Sleepy Hibiscus is a large, shrubby hibiscus that bears big flowers that open briefly early in the day and then promptly close, hence one of its common names, sleepy hibiscus. Its range includes Florida, the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, and much of South America. It is also a native plant in Hawaii. It is very easily grown in wet to moderately dry soil in light shade to full sun.
Muhly Grass in coastal uplands
Lot 13 – Starting Bid $75.00
Muhly grass is one of the most coveted of the native grasses. While its natural habitat is relatively dry open habitats, it
tolerates a variety of soils and is frequently planted as an ornamental grass in residential and commercial landscapes, gardens, and roadside plantings. It is also important as a stabilizer on coastal dunes. Its plumes are most showy in fall, when it displays a cloud of silky pink inflorescence.
Curaçao Bush or Bloodberry
Lot 14 – Starting Bid $150.00
This is a state-listed endangered species that occurs naturally in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. Although very rare in the wild, it is common in south Florida as a butterfly garden plant. The tiny white flowers are filled with nectar and attract a wide variety of pollinating insects including butterflies, but especially the smaller butterflies.
Jamaica-dogwood
Lot 15 – SOLD
Jamaica-dogwoods grow 30 – 50 feet tall in rocky soils, frequently in coastal areas just behind the sand dunes. The Red- shoulder Hawk has become uncommon over much of eastern North America, sticking closely to the remaining forests. Usually a hawk of the woodlands, populations in Florida are more visible, perhaps adapting better to open habitats.
Goethe Flatwoods
Lot 16 – Starting Bid $75.00
Goethe State Forest in Levy and Alachua counties, is 53,587 acres and encompasses a very great diversity of habitats.
Tie Vine
Lot 17 – Starting Bid $75.00
Tie Vine, so called for its tough stems, is common and ranges from Texas to North Carolina and south throughout
Florida and parts of Mexico and South America. This simple flower is as wondrous as any more rare.
Flatwoods Pawpaw
Lot 18 – Starting Bid $150.00
Flatwoods Pawpaw is a small shrub in pine flatwoods and scrub throughout all of peninsular Florida. The plant is a big
bang bloomer, producing large flowers in early spring while leafless, followed by odd fruits with big seeds embedded in a banana-like, edible pulp. It is rarely available for sale. However, it is easily observed growing wild at the Hypoluxo Scrub Natural Area in Lantana.
Spanish-Moss
Lot 19 – SOLD
Spanish Moss, Neither a moss, nor from Spain, this well-known native bromeliad has the widest range of any other bromeliad in the
world and is an icon of the southeastern United States. The tiny flowers fill the night air with fragrance.
Still-leaved Wild Pine
Lot 20 – Starting Bid $150.00
This Florida epiphyte is found is a wide variety of habitats from the Florida Keys north to Volusia County and the
Tampa Bay area, the West Indies, Mexico and Central America. The showiest part of the bloom are bracts, or modified leaves, which can range in color from brilliant red to creamy yellow. The tubular flowers range from purple to white. True epiphytes, or air plants, do not harm the host tree but provide water and habitat for a wide variety of native animals.
Cardinal Airplant
Lot 21 – Starting Bid $75.00
The Cardinal Airplant is a common epiphyte in hammocks and swamps, and is listed as endangered by the state of Florida. The Red-bellied Woodpecker forages by searching for insects on tree trunks and major limbs. It climbs and perches among branches to pick berries and nuts, and sometimes catches flying insects in the air, or finds them in the Tillandsias.
Eastern Fringed Catchfly
Lot 22 – Starting Bid $250.00
This glorious species can be found growing in the moist leaf litter of shaded forests in Jackson and Gadsden Counties. The species name honors English botanist Mark Catesby, who explored Virginia and the Carolinas in the 1830s. Some species produce sticky secretions that entrap flies.
Osceola’s Plume or Crow Poison
Lot 23 – SOLD
This pair of dew-covered Stenanthium densum flowers could be seen for a long distance across the Florida prairie, a reminder as to why one of the common names for it is Osceola’s Plume. The colorful, dark background is due to a prescribed burn that took place about four weeks earlier, stimulating the blooming of these and many other spring wildflowers.
Sea Grape tunnel
Lot 24 – Starting Bid $75.00
Sea Grapes are found in the sandy soil along the coast of most of the Florida Peninsula and provide a natural windbreak, dune stabilization, and protective habitat for coastal wildlife. It’s clusters of grape like-fruit are eaten by wildlife and also make a delicious jelly.
Oak Hammock
Lot 25 – Starting Bid $75.00
Hammocks in the dry prairie grow on slightly higher elevations where excess water drains into sloughs or streams. When canals were built to channel water on the dry prairies, more hammocks emerged, threatening the dry prairie ecosystem. Restoration efforts at Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park have reestablished the natural flow of the water and removed trees that were not part of the historic landscape.
Cardinal Air plant flower
Lot 26 – Starting Bid $150.00
The Cardinal Air plant is a non-parasitic epiphytic bromeliad. It does not hurt its host plant, in this case, a cypress.
Southern Dewberry
Lot 27 – Starting Bid $75.00
Southern Dewberry is a trailing, prickly member of the Rose Family growing primarily in dry hammocks. The pale pink structures are pollen-containing anthers, while the darker structures in the center are sticky, pollen-receiving stigmas at the top of the pistils. The fruit is edible, like other Rubus species (blackberries).
Strangler Fig
Lot 28 – Starting Bid $150.00
Native Strangler Figs attract migrating birds like this Cape May warbler to their bird-friendly fruit. It is no coincidence that these trees fruit during fall migration nor that so many of South Florida’s native tropical plants have small, fleshy, bird-edible fruit.
Lignumvitae
Lot 29 – Starting Bid $150.00
Lignumvitae is naturally known only from the Florida Keys, although it has been widely planted elsewhere. Formerly logged to near extinction for its beautiful and useful wood. It is listed as endangered by the state of Florida and as critically imperiled in South Florida by The Institute for Regional Conservation.
Jamaica Caper
Lot 30 – Starting Bid $150.00
Jamaica Caper is a larval host for Florida White butterflies and attracts various pollinators. It produces a profusion of delicately scented flowers, and grows well in sun and shade.
Nuttall’s Thistle
Lot 31 – Starting Bid $150.00
Nuttall’s Thistle is a tall, prickly-leaved plant that attracts many pollinators, including this hummingbird-like moth in the sphinx moth family. The thistle is most often found in sunny, disturbed areas.
Tickseed
Lot 32 – Starting Bid $150.00
Tickseed is Florida’s State Wildflower. Twelve native and three non-native species occur in the state, according to the Atlas of Florida Plants. Several species are easy to grow, making them a good choice for people introducing Florida native plants into their landscapes.
Hydric hammock
Lot 33 – Starting Bid $75.00
Hydric hammocks occur throughout Florida seasonally wet areas with short hydroperiods. Dominated by mostly deciduous species, such as Red Maple (Acer rubrum ) and Laurel Oak (Quercus laurifolia ), hydric hammocks typically have a diverse canopy and wildlife abundance.
Mangrove Spider lily
Lot 34 – Starting Bid $75.00
Mangrove spider lily, aka Perfumed Spider lily, has showy, fragrant flowers blooming summer to fall. This evergreen perennial is easy to spot growing along coastal uplands and mangrove margins. It can grow in diverse conditions and is an outstanding plant for a wildflower garden. It is the 6 perianths (filaments that hold up the stamens) that give the plant its name, although we know that spiders actually have 8 legs!
Flat-top Goldenrod
Lot 35 – Starting Bid $150.00
Little Metalmarks are one of Florida’s smallest butterflies and use thistles as heir larval host plant. Their small size could make them go unnoticed, except for the way they shine like a copper penny when the sun catches them.
Spiderwort
Lot 36 – Starting Bid $75.00
found on roadsides and disturbed sites, the showy, delicate flowers emerge atop a robust stem sheathed in sword-like leaves. The succulent stem stores water, allowing this flower to grow in moist or dry habitats. Spiderwort flowers and young leaves can be eaten raw or cooked.
Flowering Dogwood
Lot 37 – Starting Bid $75.00
Native to Central and North Florida, the Flowering Dogwood can reach 35 feet tall. As an understory tree, it does best in filtered sun, in well drained, moist, slightly acidic soil. Its springtime bloom attracts various pollinators and its bright crimson fall berries are loved by birds. Native Americans used the aromatic bark and roots as a remedy for malaria and extracted a red dye from the roots.
Elderberry
Lot 38 – SOLD
Some consider the Elderberry weedy, with weak stems that break easily and underground shoots that rise nearby. Use in moist to wet areas, and prune to keep it contained in size and shape. Wines and jellies can be made from the fruit and the flowers heads can be dipped in batter and fried. The Western Kingbird winters in Florida, and feeds on a wide variety of insects and small numbers of berries and fruits.
Blue Mistflower
Lot 39 Starting Bid $75.00
Blue Mistflower is primarily recommended for natural landscapes, habitat restorations and moist to wet wildflower
and butterfly gardens in light shade to full sun. The Queen butterfly seen nectaring in this image, hosts on Milkweed like its relatives the Monarch and Soldier butterflies. All are distasteful to predators.
Laurel Oak
Lot 40 – Starting Bid $150.00
The Laurel Oak grows faster than most oaks but is short-lived in comparison. It provides significant food and cover for wildlife and is a host plant for many butterflies. The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker drills tiny holes in tree bark, usually in neatly spaced rows, and periodically feeds on the sap that oozes out as well as insects that are attracted to the sap. It also eats insects picked from tree trunks and those it catches in the air.
Shadow Witch Orchid
Lot 41 – Starting Bid $250.00
The Shadow Witch is a perennial, terrestrial orchid that grows to about two feet tall. It can be found in upland hardwood forests, river swamps, and springs, and blooms from September to February.
Southern Magnolia
Lot 42 – Starting Bid $150.00
Southern Magnolia is a stately, broadleaf evergreen with large leaves sometimes as much as a foot long. The huge white flowers are richly aromatic.
Black-eyed Susan
Lot 43 – Starting Bid $150.00
This wildflower takes on many forms across its vast geographical range – every state except Hawaii and nearly every Canadian province except the extreme north – and it is best to use locally sourced plants or seed. Native Black-eyed Susans generally act as annuals or, at best, biennials. They reseed in most settings unless there is a heavy mulch. Poey’s Furrow Bee is a primative eusocial bee that lives in colonies, although workers, queens and drones all look alike.
Snow Squarestem
Lot 44 – Starting Bid $150.00
The flowers of this aster relative are constantly visited by a wide variety of butterflies, day-flying moths, small native bees, and nectar-seeking wasps. The genus name means “black anthers.”
Lignumvitae
Lot 45 – Starting Bid $150.00
A Lignumvitae tree provides a snack stop for a migrating Eastern Kingbird during the fall. Florida is along the Atlantic Flyway migratory route and native plants provide the food that these visiting birds require for their arduous journeys.
Butterfly Milkweed
Lot 46 – Starting Bid $250.00
Butterfly milkweed attracts many pollinators, including hummingbirds and native bees, and is a host plant for Monarch and Queen butterflies. Because it is showy and long-lived, it is a great addition to perennial gardens. Its tough root was chewed by indigenous people as a cure for pleurisy and other pulmonary ailments.
Garber’s Scrub Stars
Lot 47 – Starting Bid $150.00
Garber’s Scrub Stars is endemic to sand pine scrub and longleaf pine-turkey oak sandhills of central Florida. Beautiful pink flowers bloom from summer into winter, and are followed by the interesting seed heads shown in this image. It is a state-listed threatened species.
American Lotus
Lot 48 – Starting Bid $150.00
A North American relative of the Sacred Lotus of Asia, this large-flowered aquatic species can be aggressive and is not a plant for small places. Its tubers were eaten by Indians (said to be similar to sweet potato) and leaves were eaten as greens (said to be similar to spinach).
Purplehead Sneezeweed
Lot 49 – Starting Bid $150.00
Purple Sneezeweed is a common wildflower throughout much of the eastern United States as far south as central Florida. An isolated and distinctive population occurs in Everglades National Park. Easily grown in pots, in the ground they need moist to wet soil in full sun and protection from larger, more aggressive plants.
Golden Canna
Lot 50 – Starting Bid $150.00
Florida’s only native canna, this species occurs throughout peninsular Florida with populations in the Florida panhandle. It is cultivated by gardeners; the plants may be eaten to the ground by larvae of the Brazilian skipper.
Hooded Pitcher Plant
Lot 51 – Starting Bid $250.00
The carnivorous and insectivorous Hooded Pitcher Plants are found scattered throughout northern and central Florida. They are topped with flying saucer-like yellow flowers in spring, just before the new pitchers emerge. This protected species likes to keep their feet wet.
Tracy’s Sundew
Lot 52 – SOLD
Those little droplets on the curled, thread-like (filiform) leaf of Tracy’s Sundew are not dew, despite the name. They are a sticky glue made to trap unwary insects. Like other carnivorous plants, this sundew digests bugs — absorbing the nutrients it needs through its leaves.
Florida Peperomia
Lot 53 – Starting Bid $250.00
An unusual looking plant, Florida Peperomia is epiphytic or terrestrial with rounded leaves. The most striking feature are the tall, erect, narrow spikes that flower throughout the year. Peperomia grows in hardwood hammocks and swamps of central and southern mainland Florida.
Palafox hybrid
Lot 54 – Starting Bid $150.00
Palafoxia feayi and Palafoxia integrifolia are Florida native wildflowers uncommon in cultivation. At one time, the photographer grew both plants in his garden and both died out, first cross-breeding and leaving behind a hybrid plant with extreme vigor, that thrives in a variety of situations in full sun, including not needing supplemental watering.
Lopsided Indiangrass
Lot 55 – Starting Bid $150.00
Lopsided Indian Grass is a tall, wispy native bunchgrass that has showy, dense, one-sided panicles. It is found naturally in flatwoods, sandhill and pineland habitats throughout the state. It is a host plant for the Delaware skipper and others, whose caterpillars munch on the grass and take shelter in its folds.
Florida Dry Prairie
Lot 56 – Starting Bid $150.00
Florida Dry Prairie is reminiscent of the land where early settlers made their homesteads and lay claim to free roaming cattle. Biologically, it is characterized by flat, open vistas of saw palmetto, native grasses, wildflowers, and other low shrubs. Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park in Okeechobee County protects the largest remaining stretch of Florida Dry Prairie and is home to a diversity of plants and animals, some endangered, such as the Florida Grasshopper Sparrow.
Manyflower Beardtongue
Lot 57 – SOLD
This showy wildflower is an easy, favorite summer flower in my sunny front yard, though I have to replant every so often to keep it. Late April 2015, while scouting for a Wildflower Walk at Kissimmee Prairie Preserve with Roger Hammer and Craig Huegel, we came upon what looked like an island of white in the midst of palmettos — it was hundreds of these flowers in bloom. Unforgettable.
Button Rattlesnake Master
Lot 58 – Starting Bid $250.00
Rattlesnake Master has a very unique look and is great for accents, mixed meadow plantings or wildflower gardens. It is very attractive to pollinators but especially important for native bees. Native Americans brewed a tea of the root as an antidote to rattlesnake venom. The dried seed heads were used as rattles by the tribes in some of their ceremonies.
Yellow Milkwort
Lot 59 – SOLD
A typical summer afternoon at Kissimmee Prairie Preserve, featuring a few (thousand) Yellow Milkwort flowers, an endemic Florida species. These and other milkworts are plentiful at Kissimmee Prairie, especially in spring and summer.
Forked Bluecurls
Lot 60 – Starting Bid $150.00
Forked Bluecurls grows in sandy soils throughout the eastern United States and blooms spring through fall.
Spurred Butterfly Pea
Lot 61 – Starting Bid $250.00
The Spurred Butterfly Pea is a trailing or twining vine with delicate stems, found throughout Florida in Pinelands and coastal uplands. It is a larval host plant for the Long-tailed Skipper and Northern Cloudywing butterflies.
Whitemouth Dayflower
Lot 62 – Starting Bid $150.00
Whitemouth Dayflower has two large blue petals and a much smaller white petal below. It grows in dry, open woodlands and blooms throughout the year.
Butterflyweed
Lot 63 – Starting Bid $150.00
This bee and butterfly magnet likes dry to moist soil in full sun, and is found in dry prairies, meadows, open woods and roadsides. The showy orange clusters of flowers and low maintenance make it a favorite for butterfly gardens. It is the larval host for monarch and queen butterflies and unlike other milkweeds, does not have milky sap.
Yellow-flowered Butterwort
Lot 64 – Starting Bid $250.00
Yellow-flowered Butterwort is a carnivorous, state-threatened species found in marshy areas at Kissimmee Prairie Preserve. The basal rosettes of leaves exude a sticky substance to trap small insects. The bugs are slowly “eaten”— chemically digested — providing nutrients to the plant.
Pale Passionflower
Lot 65 – Starting Bid $150.00
This state-listed endangered species grows along the edges of hardwood forests in Collier, Broward, Miami-Dade, and
mainland Monroe Counties where it serves as larval food for the gulf fritillary, zebra longwing, and julia heliconian butterflies.
Narrowleaf Silkgrass
Lot 66 – Starting Bid $75.00
Silkgrass has attractive, silvery, grassy foliage and likes to spread itself around underground when it is happy. The little yellow flowers bloom heavily in late fall and attract small pollinators like bees and the Cassius Blue shown here.
American Beautyberry
Lot 67 – SOLD
The brilliant purple fruit of American Beautyberry provide food for birds from fall through late winter, perfectly timed for winter residents like this Gray Catbird returning to a backyard garden in October.
Flatwoods Plum
Lot 68 – SOLD
A Flatwoods Plum in bloom in the spring is a good rebuttal to those who complain Florida has no seasons. It not only beautiful in flower, but an excellent wildlife plant. The flowers attract many nectaring insects and the fruits are popular with birds and mammals.
Buttonbush
Lot 69 – SOLD
Buttonbush is a wetland shrub that occurs in southeastern Canada and much of the eastern and southern United
States, ranging south to Cuba and Central America. It is very easily grown in wet areas, and the flowers are attractive to native pollinating insects, including butterflies.