Plant City is an incorporated city in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States, approximately midway together with Brandon and Lakeland along Interstate 4. The population was 39,764 at the 2020 census.

Despite many thinking it was named for flora grown at tree-plant nurseries (especially vegetables and fruits, as competently as tropical houseplants) in its tropical Gulf Coast climate, it was named after prominent railroad developer Henry B. Plant (see Plant System). Plant City is known as the winter strawberry capital of the world and hosts the annual Florida Strawberry Festival in the late winter (usually in February or prematurely March), which is attended by people from whatever over the United States as capably as many people from nearly the world.

Plant City’s original name solution during the center 1800s was Ichepuckesassa (also known as Idasukshed) after the Indian village that taking into consideration occupied the territory. Its proclaim caused as a result much confusion that the city was renamed “Cork”, after the postmaster’s Irish hometown. It was finally fixed idea the name “Plant City” in commemoration of Henry B. Plant and his railroad, which significantly boosted the commerce in this primarily agricultural community by incorporating it subsequent to the South Florida Railroad.

Plant City was the spring training house of baseball’s Cincinnati Reds, who played exhibition games at Plant City Stadium from 1988 to 1997.