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Cabbage palm, Sabal palmetto: This is our most common single-trunked palm and is Florida's state tree, as well as that of South Carolina. Its trunk sometimes has old leaf bases or bootjacks surrounding all or part of it, making an interesting criss-cross pattern. Its sweetly fragrant, yellowish-white flowers appear spring through fall and are very attractive to pollinators. Cabbage palm is extremely hardy, tolerant of frost, salt, wind, and drought. Because it is so highly adaptable, it is found in many different Florida plant communities. Two other palms in this genus are also native to Florida: Dwarf palmetto (S. minor) and scrub palmetto (S. etonia). Both strongly resemble the cabbage palm but are essentially trunkless. Dwarf palmetto is found as far west as Texas and as far north as North Carolina in partial shade in moist bottomland. By contrast, scrub palmetto prefers the dry sandy soil of the Lake Wales Ridge and coastal scrubs; it is found only in Florida. https://pinellas.fnpschapters.org/native-plant-profiles/palms/