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Earleaf Acacia

Acacia auriculiformis

Found in disturbed areas, suburban woodlands, hammocks, pine savannas, coastal habitats. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Florida edition What its natural habitat tells you

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Severe harm

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

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Do not plant. Listed invasive in Florida.

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 14 Florida 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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Forests and woodlands

Trail on Little Kennesaw Mountain.
Named place / source context. Shown: Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Georgia, a neighboring state.Trail on Little Kennesaw Mountain., Unidentified in HFC record, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

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.

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

All habitats

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

26CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including FL

Genus host records with ranges including FL · Acacia

  • Ascalapha odorataBlack Witch
  • Citheronia regalisRoyal Walnut Moth, Hickory Horned Devil
  • Coxina cinctipalpisBlack-Waved Owlet
  • Cryptothelea gloveriiOrange Bagworm
  • Cyclargus ammonNickerbean Blue, Miami Blue
  • Cyclophora nanariaDwarf Tawny Wave
  • Epargyreus clarusSilver-Spotted Skipper
  • Erechthias minusculaCaribbean Scavenger Moth
  • Feltia repletaReplete Dart
  • Fundella pellucensCaribbean Podborer
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  • Iridopsis humariaSmall Purplish Gray
  • Megalopyge opercularisSouthern Flannel Moth, Puss Caterpillar
  • Melipotis cellarisBookend Melipotis, Cellar Melipotis, Cellar Graphic
  • Ministrymon aziaGray Ministreak, Azia Hairstreak, Light-Banded Hairstreak
  • Phoebis phileaOrange-Barred Sulphur
  • Platynota rostranaOmnivorous Platynota
  • Pleuroprucha insulsariaCommon Tan Wave
  • Psamatodes abydataDot-Lined Angle
  • Pyrisitia niseMimosa Yellow, Blacktip Sulphur, Jamaican Sulphur
  • Selenisa sueroidesTailpipes, Pale-Edged Selenisa Moth
  • Spodoptera frugiperdaFall Armyworm Moth
  • Spodoptera latifasciaOrange-Striped Armyworm, Velvet Armyworm Moth
  • Tyrissa multilineaThe Bravo, Multi-Lined Tyrissa
  • Uresiphita reversalisGenista Caterpillar, Genista Cbroom Moth
  • Apotoforma rotundipennis
  • Cydia largo
Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
—BeesSoutheastern regional records
—Specialist beesPollen specialists
—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim
Growing and identification

Plant details

Family
Fabaceae

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

Conservation status

Florida rankSNA
Global rankNot available
FL statusNot verified
Federal statusNot verified

Conservation source

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