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Godfrey's Golden Aster

Chrysopsis godfreyi

Found in Coastal sand dunes. 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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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 6 Florida counties.

Natural habitats

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

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

All habitats

Also found with this plant

Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in Florida. Shared habitat, not food. 136 animals.

All wildlife of Florida

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
Show all 17
  • 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)
37BeesSoutheastern regional records

Southeastern regional records · Heterotheca

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
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

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 rankS3
Global rankNot available
FL statusNot verified
Federal statusNot verified

Conservation source

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