Cruise's Goldenaster

Chrysopsis cruiseana

Found in Coastal sand dunes. FloraQuest, phone app (app page) What its natural habitat tells you

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Native to Alabama. How scores work Is it native here?

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Rare or protected plant. Specialist conservation planting; excluded from routine garden suggestions. Plant caution source

Hidden from default planting suggestions. Wildlife value and native status remain unchanged.

At a glance

Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom

This plant is missing most of its facts, so Quercus is looking them up in old botany books.

County records are not available.

Habitats

Coastal dunes and beaches.

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Ecological relationships

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What these records mean

18CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including AL

Genus host records with ranges including AL · Heterotheca

Chloridea virescensTobacco Budworm Moth
Chlorochlamys chloroleucariaBlackberry Looper Moth
Epiblema scudderianaScudder's Epiblema, Goldenrod Gall Moth
Eupithecia miserulataCommon Eupithacia, Common Pug
Feltia subgothicaSubgothic Dart
Feltia tricosaConfused Dart, Tricose Dart
Heliocheilus paradoxusParadoxical Grass Moth
Pleuroprucha insulsariaCommon Tan Wave
Ponometia semiflavaHalf-Yellow Bird-Dropping Moth, Half-Yellow Moth
Schinia arcigeraArcigera Flower Moth

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Schinia lynxLynx Flower Moth
Schinia nubilaCamphorweed Flower Moth
Schinia saturataBrown Flower Moth
Schinia sirenAluring Schinia Moth
Spilosoma virginicaVirginian Tiger Moth, Yellow Woolybear Moth, Yellow Bear
Synchlora frondariaSouthern Emerald
Dejongia californicus
Hellinsia chlorias

Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)

37BeesSoutheastern regional records

Southeastern regional records · Heterotheca

Individual names are not available yet.

Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0

22Specialist beesPollen specialists

Pollen specialists · Heterotheca

Andrena fulvipennis
Ashmeadiella bucconis
Colletes speculiferus
Colletes thysanellae
Dieunomia heteropoda
Dieunomia nevadensis
Hesperapis carinata
Melissodes coreopsis
Melissodes dentiventris
Melissodes desponsus

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Melissodes druriellus
Melissodes menuachus
Perdita albipennis
Perdita bishoppi
Perdita boltoniae
Perdita consobrina
Perdita georgica
Perdita graenicheri
Perdita ignota
Perdita octomaculata
Perdita swenki
Perdita xanthismae

Smith, Bachelder, Russell, Morales, Mosher & Seltmann 2024, Bee-Specialization-Modeling v0.6.1 (specialist host table compiled from J. Fowler's pollen specialist bee lists), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0

—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim

No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family: Asteraceae

Conservation status

Alabama rank	S1?
Global rank	Not available
AL status	Not verified
Federal status	Not verified

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