False Rosemary

Conradina canescens

Found in longleaf pine sandhills, Florida scrub, pine flatwoods, riverine sandbars. 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

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Recorded in 18 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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Dry, deep-sand ridges with longleaf pine and turkey oak, kept open by fire.

Evergreen scrub oaks, sand pine and rosemary on deep, white, drought-prone sand ridges, burned rarely but intensely; distinct from the longleaf and turkey oak sandhills.

Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

Also found with this plant

Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in Florida. Shared habitat, not food. 155 animals.

Chipping Sparrow
Spizella passerina
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Common Nighthawk
Chordeiles minor
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Cooper's Hawk
Accipiter cooperii
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Eastern Screech-owl
Megascops asio
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Eastern Towhee
Pipilo erythrophthalmus
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Eurasian Collared-dove
Streptopelia decaocto
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Great Horned Owl
Bubo virginianus
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Mourning Dove
Zenaida macroura
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Northern Flicker
Colaptes auratus
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Northern Mockingbird
Mimus polyglottos
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Red-tailed Hawk
Buteo jamaicensis
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Red-winged Blackbird
Agelaius phoeniceus
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes aura
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Dendroica coronata
Birds. 4 shared habitats
American Crow
Corvus brachyrhynchos
Birds. 3 shared habitats
American Goldfinch
Carduelis tristis
Birds. 3 shared habitats
American Kestrel
Falco sparverius
Birds. 3 shared habitats
American Robin
Turdus migratorius
Birds. 3 shared habitats
Black-and-White Warbler
Mniotilta varia
Birds. 3 shared habitats
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticorax
Birds. 3 shared habitats
Blue Jay
Cyanocitta cristata
Birds. 3 shared habitats
Boat-tailed Grackle
Quiscalus major
Birds. 3 shared habitats
Brown Thrasher
Toxostoma rufum
Birds. 3 shared habitats
Carolina Chickadee
Poecile carolinensis
Birds. 3 shared habitats

All wildlife of Florida

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

0CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including FL

11BeesSoutheastern regional records

Southeastern regional records · Conradina

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

0Specialist beesPollen specialists

—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: Lamiaceae

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

Conservation status

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

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