Rudbeckia mollis

Rudbeckia mollis

Found in longleaf pine / turkey oak sandhills. 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

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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.

Recorded in 6 Alabama counties.

Natural habitats

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

Sandhills

Dry, deep-sand ridges with longleaf pine and turkey oak, kept open by fire.

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Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

18CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including AL

Genus host records with ranges including AL · Rudbeckia

Chlosyne nycteisSilvery Checkerspot
Acharia stimuleaSaddleback Caterpillar Moth
Adaina ambrosiaeAmbrosia Plume Moth, Ragweed Plume Moth
Archips griseaGray Archips
Chlorochlamys chloroleucariaBlackberry Looper Moth
Epiblema carolinanaGray-Blotched Epiblema
Epiblema tripartitanaThree-Parted Epiblema
Eupithecia miserulataCommon Eupithacia, Common Pug
Homoeosoma electellaSunflower Moth
Papaipema cataphractaBurdock Border, Potato-Stalk Borer

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Papaipema nebrisStalk Borer
Synchlora aerataWavy-Lined Emerald, Camouflaged Looper
Synchlora frondariaSouthern Emerald
Vanessa carduiPainted Lady, Cosmopolite
Dichomeris costarufoella
Isophrictis rudbeckiella
Isophrictis similiella
Paralobesia rhoifructana

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

56BeesSoutheastern regional records

Southeastern regional records · Rudbeckia

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

25Specialist beesPollen specialists

Pollen specialists · Rudbeckia

Andrena aliciae
Andrena asteris
Andrena rudbeckiae
Diadasia enavata
Dieunomia bolliana
Dieunomia heteropoda
Megachile inimica
Megachile parallela
Megachile pugnata
Megachile xylocopoides

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Melissodes bidentis
Melissodes boltoniae
Melissodes coreopsis
Melissodes denticulatus
Melissodes dentiventris
Melissodes desponsus
Melissodes druriellus
Melissodes illatus
Melissodes subillatus
Melissodes trinodis
Melissodes wheeleri
Paranthidium jugatorium
Perdita octomaculata
Protandrena albitarsis
Protandrena andrenoides

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

Conservation source

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