-Plants (Kingdom Plantae)

-Vascular Plants (Phylum Tracheophyta)

-Flowering Plants (Subphylum Angiospermae)

-Monocots (Class Liliopsida)​

-Palms, Bullanocks, and Allies (Order Arecales)

-Palms (Family Arecaceae)

-Subfamily Coryphoideae

-Tribe Sabaleae

-Palmettos (Genus Sabal)

-Mexican Palmetto (Sabal mexicana)

This palm tree, commonly seen near the coast, has large, blue-green costaplamate leaves with a distinctive, large notch in the middle. The trunk is large (can be a foot and a half across) and wild palmettos retain old frond bases on their trunks in a crisscross pattern, typically called "boots".