This is a list of plants which includes trees and other herbs, vines, climbers, lianas, shrubs, subshrubs that are native or endemic, found in Cuba.
This list should exclude plants grown, invasive species or introduced by humans (example: weeds).
The endemic genera or species (exclusive of Cuba) are marked by *. This list is sorted in alphabetical order by binomial names. Common names are in parentheses.
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)
R. Rankin". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 24 November 2021. Flora de la República de Cuba online The Spermatophyta ofCuba – A Preliminary Checklist...
across Cuba, Flora is the wettest known tropical cyclone for Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. The significant casualties caused by Flora were the...
cascarilla, is a plant species of the genus Croton that is native to the Caribbean. It has been naturalized in other tropical regions of the Americas. It grows...
peregrina or spicy jatropha, is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, that is native to Cuba and Hispaniola. "Jatropha integerrima"...
plant is also reportedly naturalized in Cuba. Allium canadense has an edible bulb covered with a dense skin of brown fibers. The plant also has strong...
Flynn, Timothy W.; Wagner, Warren L. (1 March 1995). "Contributions to the Floraof Hawai'i III" (PDF). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. 41: 19–58. ISSN 0893-1348...
Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Cuba. It is also naturalized in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Bhutan, Australia and much of Europe (France, Spain, Italy, Romania...
lady of the night, night-blooming jasmine, night-blooming jessamine, night-scented jessamine, night-scented cestrum or poisonberry, is a species of plant...
varieties of Quercus virginiana. Notably, the following two taxa, treated as species in the Floraof North America, are treated as varieties of southern...
augustifolia, Z. floridana, Z. silvicola, and Z. umbrosa). The Floraof North America treats all of the American populations as Z. integrifolia, and all West...
to eradicate because of underground parts that remain behind when you try to pull up the plant. Diodia virginiana is native to Cuba, Nicaragua, Mexico,...
flowers secrete copious amount of nectar, and the honey that bees make from it is very clear and aromatic. It also grows in Cuba, where it usually blooms from...
cultivated for and used in ponds and artificial aquatic habitats. It is native to Cuba, Central America, and South America as far south as Brazil and Bolivia. It...
also known as spiked spiralflag ginger or Indian head ginger, is a species of herbaceous plant in the Costaceae family (also sometimes placed in Zingiberaceae)...
known as the shingle flatsedge, is a species of sedge that is native to sub-tropical and tropical areas of the world. The sedge is a rhizomatous, robust...
tropics, but was one of the earliest plants domesticated by pre-historic Amerindians in South America. Goeppertia allouia is native to Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto...
other botanists have recognized several more narrowly defined species. The Floraof North America treats the American plants as Z. integrifolia, although some...
treatment of diseases of the genitals and urinary organs, such as those for which cubeb was often prescribed. The chemical composition of the essential...
Bauhinia divaricata, the bull hoof or Mexican orchid tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to Mexico, Central America...
Pombalia linearifolia is a species of plant. It is native to parts of the Caribbean. "Pombalia linearifolia". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-07-12. "Pombalia...
tropical pine, is a pine tree endemic to the western highlands of the island ofCuba. Cuban pine forests Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pinus tropicalis...
twisted acacia , poponax or huisachillo, is a woody, leguminous thorn tree of the Caribbean, Florida, southern Texas, northeastern and central Mexico, and...
reportedly naturalized in Cuba and the Bahamas. Hymenocallis speciosa is a bulb-forming perennial. Stipe can attain a height of up to 50 cm. Leaves are...
subtropical regions of the world, but is considered by Plants of the World Online to be native to the Caribbean (Aruba, the Bahamas, Cuba, the Dominican Republic...
Rhynchospora berteroi, known by the common name of little beaksedge, is a member of the sedge family, Cyperaceae. It is a perennial herb, native to wetlands...
The Cuban cactus scrub is a xeric shrubland ecoregion that occupies 3,300 km2 (1,300 sq mi) on the leeward coast ofCuba. Most of it occurs in the southeastern...
only on the islands of Trinidad and Cuba, and also in Collier County, Florida. It occurs in cypress swamps and hammocks at elevations of less than 20 m (67...
the floraof the Yucatan Peninsula II: a synopsis of the orchid floraof the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula and a tentative checklist of the Orchidaceae of the...
wetlands in the eastern United States, as well as in Quebec, Ontario, and Cuba. It is common in central Florida including the Everglades and along the Gulf...
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