Taxus floridanaNutt. ex Chapm.

Florida YewFlorida yew

WFO wfo-0000408623 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Taxus floridana, photographed by Jessica
fig. a Jessica, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-01-19 / obs. 59936908
Taxus floridana, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. b Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153830651
Taxus floridana, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. c Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 39648223
Taxus floridana, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. d Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59576421
Taxus floridana, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. e Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153830649
Taxus floridana, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. f Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153830654
Taxus floridana, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. g Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153830643
Taxus floridana, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. h Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153830632

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Taxus floridana is native: Florida, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast FloridaMexico GulfMexico Northeast
Native distribution of Taxus floridana, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Florida FLA NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Taxus baccata subsp. floridana (Nutt. ex Chapm.) Pilg.
  • Taxus baccata var. floridana (Nutt. ex Chapm.) Elwes
  • Taxus baccata var. floridana (Nutt. ex Chapm.) Pilg.
  • Taxus canadensis subsp. floridana (Nutt. ex Chapm.) Silba
  • Taxus canadensis var. floridana (Nutt. ex Chapm.) Silba
  • Taxus globosa var. floridana (Nutt. ex Chapm.) Spjut

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.