Carlin Park Plant List

1. Beach (Marsh) Elder

Iva imbricata

Leaves fleshy, a little toothy. Very common on the beach.

2. Sea Purslane, Sea Pickle

Sesuvium portulacastrum

Leaves succulent, long and narrow; flowers lavender

3.  Bay Bean

Canavalia rosea

Vine with fleshy 3-parted leaves; flowers pealike, violet; pods thick

4. Cow Pea

Vigna lutea

Vine with thin 3-parted leaves; flowers pealike, yellow

5. Railroad Vine

Ipomoea pes-caprae

Beach vine with simple glossy leaves; big purple morninglory flowers

6.  Sea Rocket

Cakile edentula

Succulent, with nippy fragrance, the leaf margins dentate-serrate; flowers white with 4 petals

7.  Inkberry

Scaevola plumieri

Shrub with leathery spoon-shaped flowers; the flowers white and shaped like half a flower; fruits black

(Beach Naupaka, Scaevola sericea, has larger curled leaves and white fruits.)

8.  Seaside Joyweed

Alternanthera maritima

Creeping on the beach sand, the opposite leaves often red

9. Florida Privet

Forestiera segregata

Shrub with opposite leaves and conspicuous white-spot lenticels

(Similar Spanish Stopper has no lenticels.)

10.  White Indigoberry

Randia aculeata

Perky, thorny shrub having small, clustered opposite leaves (with stipule), the small flowers starry and white; fruit a white berry black on the inside