Florida Plant ID

Florida Plant ID is an online resource for learning about plants. It is useful to plant enthusiasts as well as Florida Master Gardener Volunteers and Florida 4-H Youth preparing for state contests. Images and information on 200 vegetables, fruits, flowers, and landscape plants are included.

How to Use Florida Plant ID

There are four plant categories: fruits and nuts, vegetables, flowers and indoor plants, and ornamentals. After choosing a category, you’ll find a list of plants that are included in the competition. Each of these links will take you to a page going into more detail about that plant.

• Fruits and Nuts
• Vegetables
• Flowers and Foliage
• Ornamentals

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• Glossary of terms used
• Thanks and acknowledgments to those who made Florida Plant ID possible

Competition Forms

• Flowers and Foliage List (PDF)
• Fruits and Nuts List (PDF)
• Ornamentals List (PDF)
• Vegetables List (PDF)

Contest Participant Instructions

• County teams can have 3 or 4 members. The low score from the team of 4 will be dropped. You can also participate as an individual.
• Do your own work — no talking during or after.
• 20 minutes per station with a 5 minute warning.
• If you finish early, stand against the wall in your group. No talking.
• If you need clarification of the sample or the sample moved, raise your hand.
• Gentle touching of ID samples is okay. Do not move samples from the plate.
• On the judging samples, do not move or touch. The judging section has new scoresheets. (PDF)
• No tasting of samples.
• After the contest is over, we will do a sample review with tags out that you can take pictures of.