Rottemere Everglades Flora Suggestions (based off known Florida Everglades):
I got my ideas from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everglades
And here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everglades_National_Park
More plants found in the Everglade than what I list: http://www.nps.gov/ever/naturescience/up...20List.pdf
And this: http://www.nps.gov/ever/naturescience/index.htm
I know you probably don't have most of these plants, but here's some I researched and where they are found (I put those that are already available models in bold text):
In the watery marsh areas (aka Sawgrass Marshes and Slough):
Nenuphar waterlily (my resource pack)
Sawgrass (grows out of the water, with leaves above water; grows densely)
Bladderwort (carnivorous water plant)
Spatterdock (leaves like reg waterlily, but flower is yellow and different shape)
EDIT: Lighting idea made from water rush plants -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rushlight
Where the islands of salt tolerant trees grow [close to ocean or salty rivers from ocean] (Cypress and Mangroves):
mangroves (with roots in water partway) - (my resource pack)
air plants in the cypress trees and other trees (includes bromeliads, Spanish moss, ferns, some orchids) (my resource pack - the bromeliads)
cypress trees with buttressed trunks and root projections out of water -called "knees"
red maple tree
swamp bay
pop ash
Coastal lowlands (found between Cypress & Mangroves areas and Pine Rocklands):
saltwort (edible; extrememly salt tolerant; is even a desert plant)
glasswort - edible, extremely salt tolerant; is even a desert plant)
Pine Rockland:
morning glory plant (vanilla Bethesda plant - but don't know if in Pine Rockland, though most likley)
slash pine (most common tree)
understory shurbs (saw palmetto, cabbage palm, West Indian lilac)
most diverse group of plants is herbs (two dozen species at least)
Tropical Hardwood Hammocks (small islands of trees on raised land):
southern live oak
gumbo limbo
royal palm
bustic
wild coffee (a future ingredient idea??)
white indigoberry
poisonwood ( all parts of tree irritate skin, like poison oak or poison sumac)
tamarind tree (edible fruit)
sharp saw palmettos (near base of these islands)
Misc:
spikeplant (my resource pack) [as ground plant and tree nook/cranny plant]
palmleaf fern (my resource pack) [use large version on ground and also scale smaller to put in Cypress trees/other tree nooks and crannies, like the bromeliad air plants]
sugarcane (my resource pack) (a good growing crop in everglades, but growing it in mass destroys the ecological balance and ruins the land; I think sugarcane *might* be a natural plant of the everglades, though, just found here and there, and not in mass)
Koniption
PS - sorry if you've already decided on what flora you're gonna use besides shrubs; I just felt like doing some research on some plants, I guess. If this info is what you don't need, just ignore it.