The President Hibiscus, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, is a tropical flowering shrub.

Star jasmine, also known as Confederate jasmine, Trachelospermum jasminoides, is native to China, and now is found all over the world. It also is not a true jasmine.

The Carolina wild petunia, ruellia caroliniensis, can be found in wet hammocks, flatwoods, sandhills, and along roadsides and disturbed areas from Florida north to New Jersey and west to Texas.

The purple thistle is found in pinelands, prairies and along roadsides. This one was found in rural DeSoto County, Florida.

Abstract presentation of clover blossom.

Beautiful flowers in a window box on Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina.

Beautifully flowered window bnoxes on a house along Church Street in Charleston, Sounth Carolina.

Lizard sitting on a Gemini Anthurium Plant in Eureka Springs Park in Tampa, Florida

This is just one of many flowers in the garden of the Montana de Fuego Inn in La Fortuna, Costa Rica.

The tea rose is one of the most popular roses today. It may have been bred by Thomas Edison's wife, Mina.

These prickly pear cacti were blooming in the Withlacoochee National Forest inApril,

The magnolia tree is as symbolic of the southern United States, as Spanish moss and southern gentility.