General Landscape Uses:
Wildflower gardens.
Availability:
Occasionally grown by native plant nurseries in central Florida.
Range:
Southeastern United States south to Highlands County; disjunct and possibly extirpated in Collier County.
Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Map of Postal Code Areas of IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Habitats: Scrub, sandhills and other dry sites.
Wildlife and Ecology: Larval host plant for monarch (
Danaus plexippus) and queen (
Danaus gilippus) butterflies.
Comments: See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's
Flower Friday page and
Monarchs & Milkweed flyer.
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