Spanish Needles – IUCN Conservation Status: Insufficient Data Spanish needles can reach a max of five feet tall This pollinator friendly plant goes by many names. Common names include butterfly needles, shepherd’s needles, tickseed sunflowers, stick weed, pitchfork weed, and beggar-ticks. Although this plant may look pretty, many consider it a weed. It is an annual or short-lived […]
Alligator Texture
IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern That’s as many alligators as there are people in Miami and Tampa combined! Possibly the best animal to convey our gallery theme of “Textures”, this is the American alligator. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission believe there to be ~1.3 million individuals in the state. That’s as many alligators as there are […]