Botanical Study

The Big Scrub is the world’s largest contingous sand pine scrub forest, and is home to a wide variety of rare and endangered plant species. Whether you’re looking for unusual shrubs on the high, dry longleaf pine islands of the scrub forest, or rare trees in bottomlands along our creeks and rivers, you’ll find a diversity of flora in every season – with peak wildflower blooms in spring and fall – along the Florida Black Bear Scenic Byway.