Pineland Purple, False Vanillaleaf

We recently moved to central florida in the Seminole Forest. Our land is scrubland and pine woods. This beautiful plant started to bloom ...Read Moreand in my research I found your site. The "Pineland Purlple" has attracted many butterflies and bees. It appeared next to my moonflowers and morning glories. The passion flowers were already there. We disturbed as little as we could when we built, and are now finding so many wonderful plants. We are letting the native species thrive which includes many wild flowers .

I believe this is the plant growing in my woods. From the photos I have found on the web, it seems to be right. Only have one plant sig...Read Morehted so far, but it really caught my attention on the walk thru the woods. We are on the edge of the Waccassa Flats and have many piney woods in the area. I noticed it flowering in late summer.

Herbaceous perennial endemic to sandy flatwoods from central Florida south to Collier County. The rose purple flowers rise from a basal r...Read Moreosette to reach a height of 1-3 feet.

Pineland Purple or False Vanillaleaf is native to the pine flatwoods, palmetto prairies and possibly open fields and scrubby areas across...Read More southern and south-central Florida, spreading up the Florida west coast to near Homosassa Springs in the central half of Florida. It is an excellent native flowering plant with beautiful smallish deep purple to lavender and possibly violet flowers in clusters and a thin stem. Very beautiful as it seems to form purple (but spaced apart and isolated from eachother, but not extremely or very far) seas of purple flowers stretching across palmetto prairies, poking up from the saw palmettos, with a widely spaced overstory of slash or longleaf pines, allowing a high-to- medium amount of sunlight through. A great flowering native plant that may attract pollinating insects or butterflies!