Soft Golden-aster

Bradburia pilosa

Found in barrens, prairies, glades, savannas, roadsides, disturbed areas. FloraQuest, phone app (app page) What its natural habitat tells you

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Not native

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

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Height: Up to about 3 feet
Light: Full sun
Soil moisture: Dry to moist

Bradburia pilosa — flower photograph — (c) CK2AZ, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0 · Original photograph

At a glance

Life cycle: Annual

Not yet recorded · Spread · Leaves · Bloom

Bloom: recorded only in the FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team) phone app (app page).

Spread and leaves: no source found yet.

This plant is missing most of its facts, so Quercus is looking them up in old botany books.

Recorded in 1 Florida county.

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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Limestone prairie. Shown: Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County, Georgia, a neighboring state.Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Pine savannas

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

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

All habitats

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

17CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including FL

Genus host records with ranges including FL · Heterotheca

Chloridea virescensTobacco Budworm Moth
Chlorochlamys chloroleucariaBlackberry Looper Moth
Cucullia alfarataCamphorweed Cucullia, Halloween Paint, Camphorweed Cucullia
Epiblema scudderianaScudder's Epiblema, Goldenrod Gall Moth
Eupithecia miserulataCommon Eupithacia, Common Pug
Heliocheilus paradoxusParadoxical Grass Moth
Pleuroprucha insulsariaCommon Tan Wave
Ponometia semiflavaHalf-Yellow Bird-Dropping Moth, Half-Yellow Moth
Schinia arcigeraArcigera Flower Moth
Schinia lynxLynx Flower Moth

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Schinia nubilaCamphorweed Flower Moth
Schinia saturataBrown Flower Moth
Schinia sirenAluring Schinia Moth
Spilosoma virginicaVirginian Tiger Moth, Yellow Woolybear Moth, Yellow Bear
Synchlora frondariaSouthern Emerald
Dejongia californicus
Hellinsia chlorias

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

—BeesSoutheastern regional records

22Specialist beesPollen specialists

Pollen specialists · Heterotheca

Andrena fulvipennis
Ashmeadiella bucconis
Colletes speculiferus
Colletes thysanellae
Dieunomia heteropoda
Dieunomia nevadensis
Hesperapis carinata
Melissodes coreopsis
Melissodes dentiventris
Melissodes desponsus

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Melissodes druriellus
Melissodes menuachus
Perdita albipennis
Perdita bishoppi
Perdita boltoniae
Perdita consobrina
Perdita georgica
Perdita graenicheri
Perdita ignota
Perdita octomaculata
Perdita swenki
Perdita xanthismae

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

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family: Asteraceae
Flower color: Yellow

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

Growing sources and scope

Flower color · “Yellow” · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Height · “Up to about 3 feet” · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Life cycle · “Annual” · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Light · “Full sun (documented habitat)” · FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team), phone app (app page) · Carolinas and Georgia
primary_flower_color · “yellow” · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Soil · “Dry; Moist (documented habitat)” · FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team), phone app (app page) · Carolinas and Georgia

Also known as

Chrysopsis pilosa; Heterotheca pilosa; Soft Golden Aster; Soft Goldenaster; golden aster; golden-aster

Conservation status

Florida rank	SNR
Global rank	G5
FL status	Not verified
Federal status	Not verified

Conservation source Global and federal source

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