Citron

Citrus medica

Found in disturbed hammocks. FloraQuest, phone app (app page) What its natural habitat tells you

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Not native

Not native to Alabama. How scores work Is it native here?

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At a glance

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

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Recorded in 1 Alabama county.

Natural habitats

Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

Coastal Plain hammocks

Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests.

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Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

45CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including AL

Genus host records with ranges including AL · Citrus

Acharia stimuleaSaddleback Caterpillar Moth
Agrotis ipsilonIpsilon Dart, Black Cutworm, Greasy Cutworm
Amphion floridensisNessus Sphinx
Amyelois transitellaNavel Orangeworm
Anatrachyntis badiaFlorida Pink Scavanger Caterpillar
Anatrachyntis rileyiPink Scavanger Caterpillar
Anavitrinella pampinariaCommon Gray, Cranberry Spanworm
Archips argyrospilaFruit-Tree Leafroller Moth
Argyrotaenia ivanaIvana Leafroller Moth
Argyrotaenia kimballiKimball's Leafroller Moth

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Automeris ioIo Moth
Clepsis peritanaGarden Tortrix
Cryptothelea gloveriiOrange Bagworm
Dichomeris citrifoliellaOrange Webworm Moth
Estigmene acreaSalt Marsh Moth, Acrea Moth
Euclea delphiniiSpiny Oak-Slug Moth
Harrisina americanaGrapeleaf Skeletonizer Moth
Helicoverpa zeaCorn Earworm Moth
Homoeosoma electellaSunflower Moth
Hypercompe scriboniaGiant Leopard Moth, Great Leopard Moth
Hyphantria cuneaFall Webworm
Hypocala andremonaHypocala Moth
Megalopyge opercularisSouthern Flannel Moth, Puss Caterpillar
Oiketicus abbotiiAbbot's Bagworm Moth
Oxydia vesuliaSpurge Spanworm Moth
Papilio cresphontesEastern Giant Swallowtail
Phobetron pitheciumHag Moth, Monkey Slug
Platynota flavedanaBlack-Shaded Platynota
Platynota idaeusalisTufted Apple-Bud Moth
Platynota rostranaOmnivorous Platynota
Platynota stultanaOmnivorous Leafroller
Prolimacodes badiaSkiff Moth, Skiff Caterpillar
Sparganothis sulfureanaSparganothis Fruitworm Moth, Sulfur Leafroller, False Yellow-Head
Spodoptera eridaniaSouthern Armyworm Moth
Spodoptera frugiperdaFall Armyworm Moth
Spodoptera latifasciaOrange-Striped Armyworm, Velvet Armyworm Moth
Spodoptera ornithogalliYellow-Striped Armyworm Moth, Cotton Cutworm
Tallula watsoniWatson's Tallula
Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformisEvergreen Bagworm Moth
Urodus parvulaBumelia Webworm
Vanessa carduiPainted Lady, Cosmopolite
Phidotricha erigens
Prochalia pygmaea
Tallula atrifascialis
Zale fictilis

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

—BeesSoutheastern regional records

—Specialist beesPollen specialists

1BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim

Recorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim · Citrus

Zenaida asiaticaWhite-winged Dove

Hurlbert, Olsen, Sawyer & Winner 2021, Avian Diet Database, Scientific Data 8: 260 (CC0)

Direct food only: birds recorded eating this genus across North America. Caterpillars on host plants also feed nesting birds. NC Native Plant Society: butterfly gardening

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family: Rutaceae

Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.

Conservation status

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

Conservation source

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