Broombush Falsewillow

Baccharis dioica

Found in rockland hammock edges, barrier island sands. FloraQuest, phone app (app page) What its natural habitat tells you

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

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

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Recorded in 4 Florida counties.

Habitats

Coastal Plain hammocks.

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31CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including FL

Genus host records with ranges including FL · Baccharis

Anavitrinella pampinariaCommon Gray, Cranberry Spanworm
Condica vidensWhite-Dotted Groundling
Cremastobombycia solidaginisGoldenrod Leafminer
Ctenoplusia oxygrammaSharp-Stigma Looper Moth
Dichomeris serrativittellaToothed Dichomeris
Epiblema discretivanaDescriminating Epiblema
Estigmene acreaSalt Marsh Moth, Acrea Moth
Eupithecia miserulataCommon Eupithacia, Common Pug
Eusarca fundariaDark-Edged Eusarca
Hellinsia balanotesBaccharis Borer Plume Moth, Groundsel Plume Moth

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Hellinsia kellicottiiGoldenrod Borer Plume Moth
Homoeosoma electellaSunflower Moth
Iridopsis defectariaBrown-Shaded Gray, Willow Looper
Lioptilodes albistriolatusMousy Plume Moth
Macaria varadariaSouthern Angle
Platynota stultanaOmnivorous Leafroller
Pleuroprucha insulsariaCommon Tan Wave
Prionoxystus pigerBaccharis Carpenterworm
Prionoxystus robiniaeCarpenterworm Moth, Black Locust Borer, Cottonwood Borer
Sonia paraplesianaHebrew Sonia
Sparganothis sulfureanaSparganothis Fruitworm Moth, Sulfur Leafroller, False Yellow-Head
Spodoptera frugiperdaFall Armyworm Moth
Spodoptera ornithogalliYellow-Striped Armyworm Moth, Cotton Cutworm
Spragueia onagrusBlack-Dotted Spragueia
Tallula watsoniWatson's Tallula
Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformisEvergreen Bagworm Moth
Aristotelia ivae
Bucculatrix ivella
Glyphodes floridalis
Hellinsia lacteodactylus
Lorita baccharivora

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

21BeesSoutheastern regional records

Southeastern regional records · Baccharis

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

6Specialist beesPollen specialists

Pollen specialists · Baccharis

Andrena hirticincta
Colletes simulans
Colletes thysanellae
Dieunomia nevadensis
Perdita octomaculata
Protandrena albitarsis

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

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

Conservation status

Florida rank	SX
Global rank	Not available
FL status	Not verified
Federal status	Not verified

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