Sabal palmetto, also known as cabbage palm, palmetto, cabbage palmetto, palmetto palm, blue palmetto, Carolina palmetto, common palmetto, swamp cabbage and sabal palm, is one of 15 species of palmetto palm (Arecaceae, genus Sabal). It is native to the southeastern United States, Cuba, and the Bahamas. In the United States it was originally found throughout most of the Florida peninsula, and near the coast from St. Andrews Bay in the Florida panhandle to the coast of North Carolina and Virginia. As a result of horticultural relocations, cabbage palms are now found throughout the south and mature plants are being grown in many areas not normally associated with palm trees. It is the state tree of both South Carolina and Florida and is also the state symbol for South Carolina.