| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bromeliaceae | Ananas | Pineapple |  (c) Hammer, Roger L. | ||
| Bromeliaceae | Ananas comosus | Pineapple | Cultivated, perhaps persistent. | Native of South America. No Florida collections appear to exist, although it is possible that it occasionally persists near areas of cultivation (Wunderlin et al. 2024). | (c) Hammer, Roger L. |
| Bromeliaceae | Billbergia |  (c) quinquenervia, M. - CC0 | |||
| Bromeliaceae | Billbergia pyramidalis | Flaming Torch | Disturbed areas, escaped from cultivation. | Native of South America. | (c) quinquenervia, M. - CC0 |
| Bromeliaceae | Bromelia |  (c) Marcum, Paul | |||
| Bromeliaceae | Bromelia pinguin | Pinguin, Piñuela | Disturbed areas, old home sites. | Native of the Neotropics. |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. |
| Bromeliaceae | Bromeliaceae | Bromeliad or Pineapple Family |  (c) Campos, Aidan | ||
| Bromeliaceae | Catopsis | Catopsis, Strap-airplant |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. | ||
| Bromeliaceae | Catopsis berteroniana | Powdery Strap-airplant, Mealy Wild-pine | Epiphytic on trees in tropical hammocks and swamps. | S. peninsular Florida; West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and South America. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Bromeliaceae | Catopsis floribunda | Many-flowered Strap-airplant, Florida Strap-airplant | Epiphytic on trees in tropical hammocks. | S. peninsular Florida; West Indies; Mexico (Oaxaca, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatán), Central America, and n. South America. |  (c) Corder, Brandon - CC-BY |
| Bromeliaceae | Catopsis nutans | Nodding Strap-airplant | Epiphytic on trees in wet tropical hammocks and swamps. | S. peninsular Florida; West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and South America. |  (c) - CC0 |
| Bromeliaceae | Dyckia | ||||
| Bromeliaceae | Dyckia brevifolia | ||||
| Bromeliaceae | Guzmania | Guzmania, Tufted-airplant |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. | ||
| Bromeliaceae | Guzmania monostachia | West Indian Tufted-airplant, West Indian Guzmania | Epiphytic on trees in swamps and wet tropical hammocks. | S. peninsular Florida; West Indies; Central America and South America. | (c) Cressler, Alan M. |
| Bromeliaceae | Hechtia | Hechtia |  (c) Peden, David - CC0 | ||
| Bromeliaceae | Hechtia glomerata | Guapilla | In xeric, upland, often saline thornscrub, on gravels, clays, and sands (typically derived from the Jackson or Claiborne Groups). | S. Texas south to Guatemala. | (c) Peden, David - CC0 |
| Bromeliaceae | Tillandsia | Airplant, Wild-pine, Spanish-moss, Ball-moss | (c) Campos, Aidan | ||
| Bromeliaceae | Tillandsia ×smalliana | Reddish Wild-pine | Epiphytic on trees, especially Taxodium, in swamps. | S. peninsular Florida; reported for Central America. |  (c) Campos, Aidan - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Bromeliaceae | Tillandsia baileyi | Epiphytic on live oaks and other trees. | S. Texas south to Mexico (Chiapas, Jalisco, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Tamaulipas) and Guatemala. |  (c) Marcum, Paul | |
| Bromeliaceae | Tillandsia balbisiana | Southern Needleleaf, Cuttlefish | Epiphytic on trees in hammocks and scrub. | Peninsular Florida; West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and South America |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Bromeliaceae | Tillandsia bartramii | Bartram's Airplant | On tree branches in bayswamps, tidal swamp forests, and mesic hardwood bluffs (hammocks). | E. Georgia south through Florida; disjunct to Mexico and Guatemala. |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. |
| Bromeliaceae | Tillandsia fasciculata var. clavispica | Cardinal Airplant | Epiphytic on trees in sunny areas. | Peninsular Florida; West Indies; Mexico. | |
| Bromeliaceae | Tillandsia fasciculata var. densispica | Quill-leaf Airplant | Branches of trees, especially Taxodium ascendens and less typically evergreen oaks. | From c. and s. Florida south through the West Indies, Mexico, and Central America. | (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Bromeliaceae | Tillandsia fasciculata var. fasciculata | Cardinal Airplant | Epiphytic on trees in hammocks. | S. peninsular Florida; West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and South America. |  (c) Hammer, Roger L. |
| Bromeliaceae | Tillandsia flexuosa | Twisted Airplant, Banded Airplant, Twisted Wild-pine | Epiphytic on trees in hammocks, cypress swamps, mangroves, coastal woodlands. | Peninsular Florida; West Indies; se. Mexico (Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatán), Central America, and South America. |  (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Bromeliaceae | Tillandsia floridana | Florida Airplant | Epiphytic on trees in swamps and riverine forests. | Endemic to c. peninsular Florida. |  (c) Keim, Mary - CC-BY-NC-SA, permission granted to NCBG |
| Bromeliaceae | Tillandsia ionantha | Blushing-bride Airplant | Mexico south to Panama. |  (c) Bradley, Keith | |
| Bromeliaceae | Tillandsia paucifolia | Potbellied Airplant | Epiphytic on trees in hammocks, mangroves, coastal woodlands. | Peninsular Florida; West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and n. South America. |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. |
| Bromeliaceae | Tillandsia pruinosa | Hairy Airplant; Fuzzywuzzy Airplant | Epiphytic on trees in strand swamps. | S. peninsular Florida; West Indies; Mexico (Chiapas, Oaxaca, Tabasco, Veracruz), Central America, and South America. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Bromeliaceae | Tillandsia recurvata | Ball-moss, Bunch-moss, Gallitos | On tree branches in maritime forests (northwards) or southwards epiphytic in a wide range of situations and also on utility wires and rock faces. | Se. Georgia (Duncan 1985) west to s. Alabama, south to s. Florida; Louisiana to Arizona and south through Mexico, Central America , and South America; West Indies. Introduced in e. South Carolina (Beaufort, Jasper, Charleston, Georgetown counties) via landscaping plants (Gramling 2010; P. McMillan, pers. comm. 2005). Plants on landscaping trees in s. Mississippi may also be from introduction via this means. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Bromeliaceae | Tillandsia setacea | Wild-pine, Pine-needle Airplant | On tree branches, especially on hardwoods, in mesic bluff forests, hammocks, swamps, mangroves. | Se. Georgia south to s. Florida; West Indies; Mexico, and Central America (Guatemala), and South America (Brazil). |  (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Bromeliaceae | Tillandsia simulata | Florida Airplant | On tree branches in hammocks and swamps. | Florida peninsula, north to Flagler, Putnam, and Levy counties. |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. |
| Bromeliaceae | Tillandsia usneoides | Spanish-moss, Long-moss, Pastle, Moss, Mousse (frc) | Branches of trees, especially in swamps and maritime hammocks, but elsewhere where air humidity is high enough, often even in dry forests (for instance, Tillandsia is abundant on Quercus laevis in an extensive very dry longleaf pine sandhills near Wilmington, NC, which receives frequent fog from the Cape Fear, Brunswick, and Northeast Cape Fear rivers). | S. Maryland (historically), se. Virginia south to s. Florida, west to s. Arkansas, Texas, and Mexico; West Indies; Central and South America. T. usneoides is the only member of the very large genus Tillandsia to occur north of s. Georgia. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Bromeliaceae | Tillandsia utriculata | Giant Wild-pine, Swollen Wild-pine | On tree branches in hammocks, cypress swamps, and Florida scrub. | Florida (and se. Georgia?); West Indies, Mexico, Central America, and n. South America. Reported for Georgia by Kartesz (1999), but not by Luther & Brown in FNA (2000); it is an unlikely disjunction from Putnam and Flagler counties (Florida). |  (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Bromeliaceae | Tillandsia variabilis | Leatherleaf Airplant | Epiphytic on trees in cypress swamps and hammocks. | Peninsular Florida; West Indies; c. and s. Mexico, Central America, South America. |  (c) Doby, Joshua - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |