I love living in a place where I can find new (to me) wildflowers blooming for Christmas. December not only added nine more species to my repertoire, but kept several of my faithful fall favorites in bloom.
Here’s my roundup of all the wildflowers that I found blooming in Key West during the month of December. Click on the common names to visit the individual species’ pages.

Bracted fanpetals 
Snow squarestem 
Baybean 
Scorpion’s tail 
Everglades Key pencilflower 
Jamaican feverplant 
Sea lavender 
Grannybush 
Shoreline seapurslane 
Goatweed 
Painted leaf 
Sleepy morning 
Coastal sea rocket 
Monkeypod 
Cape sable whiteweed 
Bushy seaside oxeye 
Christmasberry 
Brazilian jasmine 
Black nightshade 
Coastal Indian mallow 
Herb of Grace 
Yellow joyweed 
False shrubby buttonweed 
Whitemouth dayflower 
Virginia pepperweed 
Beggar’s-ticks 
Straggler daisy 
Silverhead 
Lilac tasselflower 
Spanish needles 
Coatbuttons 
Coastal beach sandmat

