Friends of the Carlton Reserve
1800 Mabry Carlton Parkway
Venice, FL 34292
Take a "walk on the wildflower side" with Jean-Louis Dumaine, six months after the Memorial Day wildfire in the Carlton Reserve.
Who knew?
The lowly palmetto (serenoa repens) may be as much as 10,000 years old!
Florida Native Plant Society
Vol. 33. no. 3 2016
"Age-old palms of Florida's Ancient Ridges"
Warren G. Abrahamson
"A Tale of Two Palmettos: the Foundation of Ecosystems"
Warren G. Abrahamson
Carlton Wildflower Gallery: can be viewed singly or as a slideshow.
Also view Drew Shell's Wildflower Gallery. He and and Julie Scherer are regular Carlton visitors who assist us locating and identifying new and invasive species and have obtained grants for us from Microsoft Corporation.
Help us identify our native wildflowers: e-mail Sherm@carltonreserve.org if we've misidentified any of them.
pictured : Hibiscus, Swamp Rosemallow--Hibuscus moscheutos
President
Membership
Information & Website
Park Naturalists:
Meghan Harris Meyer
Art Jensen
Counter set 03/24/2015
Sarasota County
Field Guide
to Conservation Lands
(download 64pp. PDF)
Link to searchable U.S. map resources with parks, trails, campgrounds, historical sites, marinas, etc.