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Native plants of Cabo Rojo Municipio

20 plant species are recorded as native to Puerto Rico in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Cabo Rojo Municipio by USDA PLANTS. 9 of them have growing records you can filter by light, moisture, height and estimated cold hardiness.

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Cabo Rojo Municipio, Puerto Rico

PLANTS records only 9 garden-ready natives here (under 30). County records are thin in some places; the Puerto Rico list is a useful second check.

Native species
20 Typical Puerto Rico county: 6 (median of 74 counties)
Garden-ready natives
9 Typical Puerto Rico county: 3
Share by type (all 20 native species)
Percent of the 20 native species in each growth type
Tree 5% (1)
Wildflower (forb) 55% (11)
Grass or grass-like 35% (7)
Vine 5% (1)

Wildflowers make up the largest share of the native list (55%), followed by grasses and grass-like plants (35%).

Recorded native ranges can include long-established populations that spread from gardens; check your state’s native plant society list for local guidance. How native status is decided.

ZIP codes mainly in this county fall in USDA hardiness zones 12b to 13a (2023 map).

The native plant list

Cold hardiness is estimated from each plant’s PLANTS minimum temperature. How we estimate it.

Garden-ready natives 9

Native species with PLANTS growing records (height, light, moisture, minimum temperature). “—” means PLANTS has no value.

Garden-ready native plants of Cabo Rojo Municipio, Puerto Rico
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
fragrant flatsedge Cyperus odoratus Grass or grass-like 2 ft Sun Medium Zone 11b
longleaf pondweed Potamogeton nodosus Wildflower (forb) — Sun High Zone 3b
manyspike flatsedge Cyperus polystachyos Grass or grass-like 1.6 ft Sun Medium Zone 12a
pinguin Bromelia pinguin Wildflower (forb) 4 ft Shade-tolerant Low Zone 10a
poorland flatsedge Cyperus compressus Grass or grass-like 1 ft Sun Medium Zone 11a
Puerto Rico palmetto Sabal causiarum Tree 50 ft Sun — Zone 10a
southern waternymph Najas guadalupensis Wildflower (forb) 1 ft Sun High Zone 3b
Spanish moss Tillandsia usneoides Vine — Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 9b
widgeongrass Ruppia maritima Wildflower (forb) 2 in Sun High Zone 7a

Other native species recorded here 11

PLANTS has no growing records for these, so light, moisture, height and zone filters cannot include them. Many are wild species seldom sold by nurseries.

  • Baldwin's flatsedge Cyperus croceus
  • Brazilian watermeal Wolffia brasiliensis
  • bulltongue arrowhead Sagittaria lancifolia
  • Canada spikesedge Eleocharis geniculata
  • lesser duckweed Lemna aequinoctialis
  • shortleaf spikesedge Kyllinga brevifolia
  • southern cattail Typha domingensis
  • tropical flatsedge Cyperus surinamensis
  • upright burhead Echinodorus berteroi
  • water lettuce Pistia stratiotes
  • whitemouth dayflower Commelina erecta

Compared with Puerto Rico

The typical county is the median of the 74 Puerto Rico counties with PLANTS county records; the statewide figure counts every species native anywhere in the state. More species is not better or worse: counties differ in size, habitat and how thoroughly they have been surveyed.

Native species counts, Cabo Rojo Municipio and Puerto Rico
MeasureCabo Rojo MunicipioTypical countyStatewide
Native species 20 6 253
Garden-ready natives 9 3 141
Tree 1 — 76
Shrub 0 — 5
Wildflower (forb) 11 — 88
Grass or grass-like 7 — 69
Vine 1 — 9
Fern 0 — 6

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Source & data date

Source
USDA NRCS PLANTS Database: county distribution records, native status and plant characteristics. CC0 (public domain dedication, per the data.gov catalog record).
Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP): native or introduced status by state. CC BY 3.0.
USGS US-RIIS (ver. 2.0): species listed as introduced are excluded. CC0.
Citation
USDA, NRCS. 2026. The PLANTS Database (https://plants.usda.gov, 11/04/2026). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC USA.
Govaerts R. (ed.) (2026). WCVP: World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Data file dated 2026-06-04, http://sftp.kew.org/pub/data-repositories/WCVP/ (retrieved 2026-11-04). Paper: Govaerts R. et al. (2021) The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. Scientific Data 8, 215.
Data date
Retrieved from PLANTS on November 4, 2026; WCVP data file dated June 4, 2026.
Zones
USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map (2023) ZIP table: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed November 3, 2026. Plant zones on this site are our estimate, not the official map.
Scope
Cabo Rojo Municipio (county FIPS 72023), Puerto Rico. 20 native species from PLANTS county distribution records; garden-ready = species with a PLANTS characteristics record.
Method
A species is listed when it is recorded as native to the state in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in the county by USDA PLANTS. Species PLANTS labels both native and introduced are listed separately. Full method · All sources

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