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Citron

Citrus medica

Found in disturbed hammocks. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Florida edition 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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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 2 Florida counties.

Natural habitats

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

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.

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Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

56CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including FL

Genus host records with ranges including FL · Citrus

  • Acharia stimuleaSaddleback Caterpillar Moth
  • Agrotis ipsilonIpsilon Dart, Black Cutworm, Greasy Cutworm
  • Amphion floridensisNessus Sphinx
  • Amyelois transitellaNavel Orangeworm
  • Anartia jatrophaeWhite Peacock
  • Anatrachyntis badiaFlorida Pink Scavanger Caterpillar
  • Anatrachyntis rileyiPink Scavanger Caterpillar
  • Anavitrinella pampinariaCommon Gray, Cranberry Spanworm
  • Archips argyrospilaFruit-Tree Leafroller Moth
  • Argyrotaenia amatanaPondapple Leafroller Moth
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  • Argyrotaenia ivanaIvana Leafroller Moth
  • Argyrotaenia kimballiKimball's Leafroller Moth
  • Automeris ioIo Moth
  • Clepsis peritanaGarden Tortrix
  • Cryptothelea gloveriiOrange Bagworm
  • Dichomeris citrifoliellaOrange Webworm Moth
  • Estigmene acreaSalt Marsh Moth, Acrea Moth
  • Euclea delphiniiSpiny Oak-Slug Moth
  • Feltia repletaReplete Dart
  • Harrisina americanaGrapeleaf Skeletonizer Moth
  • Helicoverpa zeaCorn Earworm Moth
  • Homoeosoma electellaSunflower Moth
  • Hypercompe scriboniaGiant Leopard Moth, Great Leopard Moth
  • Hyphantria cuneaFall Webworm
  • Hypocala andremonaHypocala Moth
  • Marmara gulosaCitrus Peelminer
  • Marmara salictellaWillow Stem Miner
  • Megalopyge opercularisSouthern Flannel Moth, Puss Caterpillar
  • Oiketicus abbotiiAbbot's Bagworm Moth
  • Oxydia vesuliaSpurge Spanworm Moth
  • Papilio andraemonBahama Swallowtail
  • Papilio cresphontesEastern Giant Swallowtail
  • Phobetron pitheciumHag Moth, Monkey Slug
  • Platynota flavedanaBlack-Shaded Platynota
  • Platynota idaeusalisTufted Apple-Bud Moth
  • Platynota rostranaOmnivorous Platynota
  • Platynota stultanaOmnivorous Leafroller
  • Prolimacodes badiaSkiff Moth, Skiff Caterpillar
  • Sparganothis sulfureanaSparganothis Fruitworm Moth, Sulfur Leafroller, False Yellow-Head
  • Spodoptera eridaniaSouthern Armyworm Moth
  • Spodoptera frugiperdaFall Armyworm Moth
  • Spodoptera latifasciaOrange-Striped Armyworm, Velvet Armyworm Moth
  • Spodoptera ornithogalliYellow-Striped Armyworm Moth, Cotton Cutworm
  • Syntomeida ipomoeaeYellow-Banded Wasp Moth
  • Tallula watsoniWatson's Tallula
  • Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformisEvergreen Bagworm Moth
  • Urodus parvulaBumelia Webworm
  • Vanessa carduiPainted Lady, Cosmopolite
  • Acrolophus harparsen
  • Calosima albapenella
  • Coleotechnites citriella
  • Hyalorista exuvialis
  • Phidotricha erigens
  • Prochalia pygmaea
  • Tallula atrifascialis
  • Zale fictilis
Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
—BeesSoutheastern regional records
—Specialist beesPollen specialists
1BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim

Recorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim · Citrus

  • Zenaida asiaticaWhite-winged Dove
Hurlbert, Olsen, Sawyer & Winner 2021, Avian Diet Database, Scientific Data 8: 260 (CC0)

Direct food only: birds recorded eating this genus across North America. Caterpillars on host plants also feed nesting birds. NC Native Plant Society: butterfly gardening

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family
Rutaceae

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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