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Common Plant Families Used by Tortoises for Forage(Sample members of families in parentheses are for reference and do not necessarily tortoises eat those)
Acanthus Family - Acanthaceae (twin flower, wild petunia)
Amaranth Family - Amaranthaceae (alligator weed, chaff flower, samphire, pigweed)
Aster Family - Compositae or Asteraceae (dandelions, daises, hawkweed, ragweed)
Borage Family - Boraginaceae (wild heliotrope, scorpiontail, puccoon, false gromwell)
Buckwheat Family - Polygonaceae (pigeon plum, sea grape, buckwheat, jointweed, wireweed, smartweed, sheep sorrel, dock)
Cactus Family - Cactaceae (prickly pear, coastal opuntia)
Carpet Weed Family - Aizoaceae (carpet weed, sea purslane)
Coco Plum Family - Chrysobalanaceae (gopher apple, coco plum)
Goosefoot Family - Chenopodiaceae (lamb's quarters, glasswort, Mexican tea)
Gourd Family - Cucurbitaceae (creeping cucumber, balsam apple)
Grape Family - Vitaceae (grapes, pepper vine, Virginia creeper)
Grass Family - Gramineae or Poaceae (woods grass, Bahia, Bermuda, orchardgrass)
Ebony Family - Ebenaceae (persimmon)
Evening Primrose Family - Onagraceae (gaura, water-primrose, seedbox, evening primrose)
Figwort Family - Scrophulariaceae (hedge-hyssop, blue hearts, toadflax, beard tongue, seymeria, mullein, speedwell, aureolaria)
Heath Family - Ericaceae (huckleberry, blueberry, sparkleberry, fetterbush, tar flower)
Holly Family - Aquifoliaceae (gallberry)
Iris Family - Iridaceae (blue-eyed grass, ixia)
Logania Family - Loganiaceae (miterwort, rust weed)
Madder Family - Rubiaceae (buttonbush, snowberry, poor joe, buttonweed, beach creeper, bedstraw, innocence, partridge berry, wild coffee, pusley, Mexican clover)
Mallow Family - Malvaceae (hibiscus, Indian mallow, sida)
Meadow Beauty Family - Melastomataceae (meadow beauty)
Milkweed Family - Asclepiadaceae (milkweeds)
Mint Family - Lamiaceae or Labiatae (dicerandra, mint, henbit, sage, pennyroyal, skullcap)
Morning Glory Family - Convolvulaceae (morning glories, bindweed, dichondra, stylisma)
Mustard Family - Cruciferae or Brassicaceae (cress, mustard, pepper grass, sea rocket, wild radish, warea)
Nightshade Family - Solanaceae (peppers, tomatoes, Christmas berry, ground cherry, nightshade, angel's trumpet, potato, horse nettle)
Palm Family - Arecaceae (palmetto, scrub palmetto, saw palmetto)
Pea or Bean Family - Leguminosae or Fabaceae (indigo, ground nut, peanut, vetch, senna)
Pink Family - Caryophyllaceae (corn cockle, sandwort, chickweed, whitlow-wort, Drymaria)
Pineapple Family - Bromeliaceae (Spanish moss, airplant)
Pinweed Family - Cistaceae (rock rose, pinweed)
Plantain Family - Plantaginaceae (English plantain, common plantain)
Purslane Family - Portulacaceae ( purslane, rose moss, portulaca)
Rose Family - Rosaceae (rose, chokeberry, plum, peach haw, blackberry, dewberry, strawberry, cinquefoil, cherry, apple)
Saltwort Family - Bataceae (saltwort)
Sedge Family - Cyperaceae (sedges, spikerush, fimbry, spikesedge, umbrella sedge)
Smilax Family - Smilacaceae (greenbrier, sarsaparilla
Spurge Family - Euphorbiaceae (3-seeded mercury, spurge, tread softly, croton, phyllanthus)
Sumac Family - Anacardiaceae (sumac, poison ivy, mango, Brazilian pepper)
Vervain Family - Verbenaceae (French mulberry, lantana, match-heads, verbena, porterweed)
Violet Family - Violaceae (violets)
Wood Sorrel Family - Oxalidaceae (wood sorrel) |
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