This lifeform is found in Florida, USA. This lifeform is frequently domesticated. This lifeform is endangered and could quickly become extinct.

Royal Palm (Roystonea elata), native to southern Florida, is very rare in its natural habitat and is protected. (Cape Sabal, at the southern peninsula of Florida, and the nearby Thousand Islands region contain some of the last wild stands of this tree.) It usually has a very straight light-colored trunk, can reach 120 feet, and is frequently used as an ornamental. Several other species in the genus are also frequently planted as ornamentals including the Cuban Royal Palm (R. regia).

Roystonea genus (royal palm) is native to the Caribbean Islands and the southern tip of Florida.  There are about ten species in this genus.  The trunk is usually very vertical and straight.  A row of these trees planted along a roadside or driveway makes a very impressive sight.  Roystonea borinquena is native to Puerto Rico.  Roystonia elata is native to southern Florida.  Roystonia regia is native to Cuba.

Palmae (Palm Family) are found in the tropics worldwide. There are probably over 4,000 valid species in this family. There are only about twenty species native to the United States. However, many more species have been introduced as ornamentals, especially in southern Florida. The southeastern United States has several species of palmettos. Florida has the common coconut palm and a native species of Royal Palm.

Palms (Palmae Family to Arecaceae family) are found in the tropics worldwide. There are probably over 4,000 valid species in this family. There are only about twenty species native to the United States, but many more species have been introduced,  especially in southern Florida, as ornamentals. The islands around New Guinea, Celebes, the Southern Philippines and adjacent islands may yield many new species.

Order Princeps (Or Palmales) contains only one family-the  Palms.

Monocots are a large group of plants usually characterized by having leaves with parallel veins and a seed with a single shell. Most flowers are created with multiples of three. In  the older botany texts, the Monocots were considered more primitive than the Dicots. However, many recent authors have placed the Monocots as an offshoot of the primitive Dicots. Here they are placed before the Dicots.

Seed plants (Phylum Embryophyta) are generally grouped into one large phylum containing three major classes: the Gymnosperms, the Monocots, and the Dicots. (Some scientists separate the Gymnosperms into a separate phylum and refer to the remaining plants as flowering plants or Angiospermae.)

For North American counts of the number of species in each genus and family, the primary reference has been John T. Kartesz, author of A Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland (1994). The geographical scope of his lists include, as part of greater North America, Hawaii, Alaska, Greenland, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

Kartesz lists 21,757 species of vascular plants comprising the ferns, gymnosperms and flowering plants as being found in greater North America (including Alaska, Hawaii, Greenland, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands).

There are estimates within the scientific world that about half of the listed North American seed plants were originally native with the balance being comprised of Eurasian and tropical plants that have become established.

Plant kingdom contains a large variety of different organisms including mosses, ferns, and seed plants. Most plants manufacture their energy from sunlight and water. Identification of many species is difficult in that most individual plants have characteristics that have variables based on soil moisture, soil chemistry, and sunlight.

Because of the difficulty in learning and identifying different plant groups, specialists have emerged that study only a limited group of plants. These specialists revise the taxonomy and give us detailed descriptions and ranges of the various species.  Their results are published in technical journals and written with highly specialized words that apply to a specific group.

On the other hand, there are the nature publishers. These people and companies undertake the challenging task of trying to provide easy to use pictures and descriptions to identify those species.