Everglades National Park: Anhinga Trail
Refuge in Everglades, Miami
Boardwalk through Taylor Slough with expansive sawgrass prairie, blooming spatterdock, and wetland trees.
Blooming here this week
Plants seen within 2 km in the last 30 days, from research-grade iNaturalist observations; each photo is credited to its observer.
No research-grade plant sightings here in the last 30 days yet. Scan what you find on your visit.
What to see
- Taylor Slough, a freshwater wetland channel flanked by sawgrass prairie and aquatic flora.
- Dense stands of native sawgrass, the sharp-toothed sedge that characterizes the Everglades marsh.
- Floating colonies of yellow-blooming spatterdock spread across open water pools.
- Thickets of pond apple and coastal plain willow lining the slough, often harboring native bromeliad air plants.
- Wetland wildflowers along the banks, including purple pickerelweed and white string lilies.
Plants you can see here
- Sawgrass Cladium jamaicense
- Spatterdock Nuphar advena
- Pickerelweed Pontederia cordata
- Pond apple Annona glabra
- Coastal plain willow Salix caroliniana
- Swamp lily Crinum americanum
- Cardinal airplant Tillandsia fasciculata
Each opens its page in SimplePlant's plant library, or its plant problems when it has no page yet.
Sources
- Everglades National Park: Anhinga Trail (official site)
- Pine Island Trails - Everglades National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
Written from these sources and checked against them by a reviewer model.
Nearby plant places
Seminole Wayside Park
A rare preserve protecting over 21 acres of critically imperiled pine rockland and endangered flora.
Fruit and Spice Park
A 37-acre tropical botanical garden with over 500 varieties of edible fruits, nuts, and spices.
Hattie Bauer Hammock Preserve
A historic tropical hardwood hammock harboring rare solution-hole ferns and pioneer-era stone ruins.
Castellow Hammock Preserve & Nature Center
A mature tropical hardwood hammock on ancient karst limestone with native pollinator plantings.
Grossman Hammock State Park
A dense tropical hardwood hammock in the Everglades, though the site is closed indefinitely to the public.
Pine Island Nursery
A long-running Redland nursery dedicated to tropical fruit trees, rare exotics, and culinary spices.
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