Lanceleaf Frogfruit

Phyla lanceolata

In the Carolinas and Georgia, found in oligohaline tidal marshes, tidal swamps, maritime swamps, dune swales and ponds, other marshes, seasonally exposed shores of rivers, ditches. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition What its natural habitat tells you

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

Profile 76%

Height: 6–20 inches
Light: Full sun
Soil moisture: Moist to wet

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At a glance

Life cycle: Perennial

Not yet recorded · Spread · Leaves · Bloom

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Recorded in 40 Arkansas counties.

Natural habitats

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

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Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

Freshwater marshes

Open, herb-covered wetlands with fresh, non-tidal water.

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

4CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including AR

Genus host records with ranges including AR · Phyla

Chlosyne gorgoneGorgone Checkerspot
Feltia subterraneaSubterranean Dart, Granulate Cutworm
Junonia coeniaCommon Buckeye
Phyciodes phaonPhaon Crescent, Crescentspot

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

29BeesSoutheastern regional records

Southeastern regional records · Phyla

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

0Specialist beesPollen specialists

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

Flies 12

Archytas analis
Eristalis latifrons
Exoprosopa fasciata
Exoprosopa fascipennis
Helophilus latifrons
Orthoneura nitida
Siphoplagia anomala
Spallanzania hesperidarum
Sphaerophoria cylindrica
Systoechus vulgaris

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Trichophora ruficauda
Tropidia quadrata

Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA

Adult butterflies / moths 4

Ancyloxypha numitor
Eurema lisa
Limochores taumas
Phyciodes tharos

Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA

Other wasps 5

Bicyrtes ventralis
Leionotus clypeatus
Priononyx atrata
Sphex nigricans
Sphex vulgaris

Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA

No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Other insects

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family: Verbenaceae
Flower color: White, yellow or purple

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

Growing sources and scope

Flower color · “White, yellow or purple” · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Height · “6–20 inches” · Minnesota Wildflowers
Life cycle · “Perennial” · Minnesota Wildflowers
Light · “Full sun (documented habitat)” · Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition · Carolinas and Georgia
Soil · “Moist; Wet (documented habitat)” · Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition · Carolinas and Georgia

Also known as

Lance Leaf Fogfruit; Lance Leaf Frog Fruit; Lippia lanceolata

Conservation status

Arkansas rank	SNR
Global rank	G5
AR status	Not verified
Federal status	Not verified

Conservation source Global and federal source

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