Sabal palmetto, also known as cabbage palm, cabbage palmetto, sabal palm, blue palmetto, Carolina palmetto, common palmetto, Garfield's tree, and swamp cabbage, is one of 15 species of palmetto palm.
It is native to the far Southeast United States, the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, the West Indies, and the Bahamas.
Sabal palmetto
Sabal palmetto from Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius's Historia naturalis palmarum
S. palmetto on Virginia Beach, Virginia
S. palmetto in Enterprise, Alabama
Sabal is a genus of New World palms. Currently, there are 17 recognized species of Sabal, including one hybrid species.
Sabal
Fossil of S. major
Image: Sabal bermudana 3zz
Image: Sabal brazoriensis