Sessile Joyweed
Alternanthera sessilis
Introduced
Where it grows in Florida
- North
- Alachua, St. Johns
- Central
- Brevard, Indian River, Manatee, Orange, Osceola, Pinellas, Polk, St. Lucie, Sarasota
- South
- Broward, Lee, Martin, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach
16 of 67 counties, from research-grade iNaturalist observations. They show where people have photographed it, not every place it grows — absence here isn't proof it's absent.
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