Cicindelidia floridana

Cicindelidia floridana NatureServe Explorer Species Reports — NatureServe Explorer is a source for authoritative conservation information on more than 50,000 plants, animals and ecological communtities of the U.S and Canada. NatureServe Explorer provides in-depth information on rare and endangered species, but includes common plants and animals too. NatureServe Explorer is a product of NatureServe in collaboration with the Natural Heritage Network.The Miami Tiger Beetle (Cicindelidia floridana) This beetle was thought to have been long gone, but ironically a small family of them was found in a piece.

FWS Digital Media Library — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Digital Library is a searchable collection of selected images, historical artifacts, audio clips, publications, and video. Cicindelidia floridana is a species of flowering plant in the genus Froelichia, in the amaranth family (Amaranthaceae). It is known as prairie cottonweed, Florida snakecotton  large cottonweed, field snakecotton, or plains snakecotton.  An annual, it produces white woolly flowers on tall flowering stalks, growing up to 40 in (1,000 mm) in height.  The narrowly oblanceolate to elliptic leaves are opposite, occurring on the lower third of the stem.  It grows in central and eastern North America, from the Great Plains to Mexico, east to the Atlantic Coast.  Its propensity to spread easily has resulted in it being considered an agricultural weed and it is an invasive species in Australia.