UF/IFAS Extension
Baker County
UF/IFAS Extension Baker County is a partnership between the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the University of Florida's Institute of Food & Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), and the Baker County Board of County Commissioners.
Contact
baker@ifas.ufl.edu
(904) 259-3520
1025 West Macclenny Avenue
Macclenny, FL 32063
Florida’s Native Flora & Fauna: Eastern Redbud & Leafcutting Bees
Featuring some of Florida’s native flora (plant life) and fauna (animal life) so you can learn to recognize, appreciate, and protect native species.
02/24/2022
Narrowleaf Sunflower – Wild Weeds
Wild Weeds - Weed of the Month
Narrowleaf Sunflower
Helianthus angustifolius
Narrowleaf Sunflower, also often called the Swamp Sunflower, is a native and common sunflower in Florida. You can find this plant naturally occurring in marshes, wet flatwoods, and roadside ditches throughout north and central Florida
10/01/2022
What's Going on in Florida
Growing Strawberries: Virtual Class & Plant Sale
Join us online for a virtual class on growing strawberries! Class topics will include how to select, plant, and grow strawberries in the home garden. The class is free, with the option to purchase bare-root strawberry plants as part of our annual fall fundraiser
10/11/2022
The Peanut Butter Challenge—Spreading the Word about Fighting Hunger
Every year at this time, people around the state go nutty for a good cause. It’s the Peanut Butter Challenge—an annual food drive to fight hunger in Florida
10/17/2022
St. John’s Wort – Wild Weeds
Wild Weeds - Weed of the Month
St. John's Wort
Hypericum tetrapetalum
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09/01/2022
Carolina Redroot – Wild Weeds
Wild Weeds - Weed of the Month
Carolina Redroot
Lachnanthes caroliana
Carolina redroot is a perennial herbaceous wildflower that occurs naturally in wet flatwoods, marshes, bogs, dome swamps, savannas, and coastal swales. Blooms of this plant are a creamy whitish-yellow and are borne in fan-like terminal clusters atop erect stems
08/01/2022
Wild Blue Phlox – Wild Weeds
Wild Weeds - Weed of the Month
Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
Wild blue phlox is a perennial wildflower that blooms from spring into early summer. You'll find this delicate flower in slope forest, bluffs and calcareous hammocks
07/01/2022
Rain Lily – Wild Weeds
Wild Weeds - Weed of the Month
Rain Lily
Zephyranthes atamasca
Rain Lily is a short-lived perennial wildflower that occurs in moist flatwoods, river swamps, floodplains, and can often be found in ditches and roadsides. As the name suggests, this plant typically blooms after a rain shower
06/01/2022
