Yellow Pimpernel
Taenidia integerrima
Found in dry forests and woodlands; moderately dry forests; forests and woodlands. FloraQuest, phone app (app page) What its natural habitat tells you
Native to Alabama. How scores work Is it native here?
Profile 88%
- Height
- 2–3 feet
- Spread
- 1.5–2.5 feet
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Soil moisture
- Dry to average
Space about 2 ft apart from its recorded spread, about 25 per 100 sq ft. Enter your bed size for a count
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At a glance
- Life cycle
- Perennial
- Bloom
- April to June
- Fruiting season
- May to July
Not yet recorded · Leaves
Recorded in 7 Alabama counties.
Natural habitats
Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.
Who uses this plant?
2CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including AL
Genus host records with ranges including AL · Taenidia
- Papilio polyxenesBlack Swallowtail, Celery Caterpillar, Fennel Worm, Desert Black Swallowtail, Parsnip Swallowtail
- Agonopterix flavicomella
Beetles 7
- Babia 4-guttata
- Bruchus bivulneratus
- Bruchus hibisci
- Centrinites strigicollis
- Hister subrotundus
- Limnobaris prolixa
- Mordellistena aspersa
Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA
Flies 21
- Anthrax sinuosa
- Baccha fuscipennis
- Chilosia petulca
- Chlorops assimilis
- Cistogaster occidua
- Elachiptera flavida
- Hippelates plebejus
- Leucostoma nigricornis
- Lucilia sericata
- Lucilia sylvarum
Show all 21
- Nemotelus glaber
- Orthoneura nitida
- Peleteria robusta
- Rivellia pallida
- Sapromyza vulgaris
- Sepsis violacea
- Sphaerophoria cylindrica
- Syrphus americanus
- Syrphus ribesii
- Trichophora ruficauda
- Zodion fulvifrons
Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA
Adult butterflies / moths 1
- Angitia obscura
Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA
Other wasps 11
- Ancistrocerus tigris
- Anoplius illinoensis
- Chalybion caeruleum
- Chrysis intricata
- Eumenes fraternus
- Leionotus clypeatus
- Leionotus illinoensis
- Leionotus scrophulariae
- Sphex vulgaris
- Symmorphus debilis
Show all 11
- Tiphia clypeata
Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA
Other insects 1
- Corimelaena lateralis
Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA
No records yet · Ants
Plant details
- Family
- Apiaceae
- Hardiness
- Zones 4–8
- Flower color
- Yellow
- Fruit begins
- May
- Fruit ends
- July
Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.
Growing sources and scope
- Bloom · “April to June” · FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team), phone app (app page) (ranked first; Prairie Moon 2026 Cultural Guide differs) · Carolinas and Georgia
- Flower color · “Yellow” · Prairie Moon 2026 Cultural Guide · Nursery cultural guide; height in flower; moisture categories retained as printed
- Fruit begins · “May” · FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team), phone app (app page) · Carolinas and Georgia
- Fruit ends · “July” · FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team), phone app (app page) · Carolinas and Georgia
- Hardiness · “Zones 4–8” · Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
- Height · “2–3 feet” · Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder (ranked first; Minnesota Wildflowers, Prairie Moon 2026 Cultural Guide differ)
- Life cycle · “Perennial” · Minnesota Wildflowers
- Light · “Full sun to part shade” · Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder (ranked first; Prairie Moon 2026 Cultural Guide differs)
- primary_flower_color · “yellow” · Prairie Moon 2026 Cultural Guide
- Soil · “Dry to medium” · Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder (ranked first; Prairie Moon 2026 Cultural Guide differs)
- Spread · “1.5–2.5 feet” · Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
Conservation status
| Alabama rank | SNR |
|---|---|
| Global rank | G5 |
| AL status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
Will it fit your yard?
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Sources
- Alabama Plant Atlas
- USDA PLANTS
- Vascular Plants of North Carolina (NC Natural Heritage Program)
- FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Weakley), phone app (app page)
- FloraQuest: South Central (Weakley), phone app (app page)
- NatureServe Explorer
- Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
- Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- 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
- Hurlbert, Olsen, Sawyer & Winner 2021, Avian Diet Database, Scientific Data 8: 260 (CC0)
- Narango, Tallamy & Shropshire 2020, Few keystone plant genera support the majority of Lepidoptera species, Nature Communications

