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Purple Honeycomb-head

Balduina atropurpurea

Found in peaty seepage bogs and wet pine savannas. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Florida edition What its natural habitat tells you

48
Good

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

Profile 94%

Height
Up to about 4 feet
Light
Full sun
Soil moisture
Moist to wet
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Rare or protected plant. Specialist conservation planting; excluded from routine garden suggestions. Plant caution source

Hidden from default planting suggestions. Wildlife value and native status remain unchanged.

At a glance

Life cycle
Perennial
Bloom
August and November
Fruiting season
October to December

Not yet recorded · Spread · Leaves

Recorded in 4 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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Pine savannas

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

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.

All habitats

Also found with this plant

Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in Florida. Shared habitat, not food. 170 animals.

All wildlife of Florida

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

2CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including FL

Genus host records with ranges including FL · Balduina

  • Schinia fulleriTailpipes, Pale-Edged Selenisa Moth
  • Synchlora frondariaSouthern Emerald
Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
49BeesSoutheastern regional records

Southeastern regional records · Balduina

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 · Balduina

  • Andrena fulvipennis
  • Colletes thysanellae
  • Dieunomia heteropoda
  • Hesperapis oraria
  • Megachile inimica
  • Perdita consobrina
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
Flower color
Yellow or purple
Fruit begins
October
Fruit ends
December
Growing sources and scope
Also known as

Purple Honeycomb head

Conservation status

Florida rankS1
Global rankG2
FL statusNot verified
Federal statusNot verified

Conservation source Global and federal source

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