Scary Name

This sweet little flower bract is on a Native Florida Wildflower plant called Scorpion-tail, Boraginaceae . The bract is only about an inch in length and is slightly curled outward at its end point. Flower bracts cover the small bush, which grows to about two feet tall. The plant's natural range in Florida is South Florida and up along both coasts to about the center of the state. However, we have several patches of it that are happily growing in our back yard and we live in North Central Florida. Scorpion-tail is a nectar plant for at least ten different varieties of our native butterflies!