websites
University of Florida IFAS
https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/ - I use this one to find native plants, what times are best to plant and find other general info.
https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/plants/ornamentals/wildflowers-for-all-seasons.html - I use this to get ideas for what I can keep blooming year-round for pollinators.
Hawthorn Hill
https://hawthornhillwildflowers.blogspot.com/ - super cool site featuring a bunch of rare and interesting Florida plants.
University of Wisconsin
https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/ - good horticultural information
apps
Seek
https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app - One of my favorite apps on my phone. Take a picture of anything in nature and it will try (usually successfully) to ID it for you. I started off with this, and now I exclusively use iNaturalist.
iNaturalist
https://www.inaturalist.org/ - The company that made Seek - you can post photos on here and people will vote to ID things. I’ve gotten some good answers on here. BONUS: your profile has a map view, you can see all the places you’ve observed things.
I love using iNaturalist when I’m poking around outdoors. Few things are more satisfying to me than wondering what something is and then, figuring it out.
Here are some of my most recent observations and the link will take you to everything I’ve seen (I particularly enjoy looking at the map view).
