What are low-maintenance shade and salt tolerant plants in Florida?
Top salt-tolerant Florida natives include sea oats, seagrape, bay cedar, black mangrove, red mangrove, sea purslane, beach sunflower, beach verbena, beach morning glory, railroad vine, saltmeadow cordgrass, smooth cordgrass, necklace pod, buttonwood, Florida silver palm, and bay bean. The highest tolerance is found in our native cabbage palms and saw palmettos. Washington palms are also very salt tolerant. For flowering coastal shrubs, hibiscus, firebush, plumeria, and sterile lantana varieties are show-stopping choices.