Canadian Honewort
Cryptotaenia canadensis
Found in moist and nutrient-rich forests (alluvial, bottomland, slope, and cove forests). Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Florida edition What its natural habitat tells you
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Modest
Native to Florida. How scores work Is it native here?
Profile 94%
- Height
- 1–3 feet
- Spread
- 9 inches–2 feet
- Light
- Part to full shade
- Soil moisture
- Somewhat dry to moist
Space about 1.5 ft apart from its recorded spread, about 44 per 100 sq ft. Enter your bed size for a count
Will it fit your yard?
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
- May to June
- Fruiting season
- June to August
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Not yet recorded · 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.
Also found with this plant
Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in Florida. Shared habitat, not food. 91 animals.
- Hooded WarblerWilsonia citrina
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- Magnificent FrigatebirdFregata magnificens
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
- Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
- Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Ruby-crowned KingletRegulus calendula
- Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubris
Ecological relationships
Who uses this plant?
1CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including FL
Genus host records with ranges including FL · Cryptotaenia
- Papilio polyxenesBlack Swallowtail
0BeesSoutheastern regional records
0Specialist beesPollen specialists
—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claimBeetles 12
- Bruchus bivulneratus
- Bruchus minus
- Centrinus picumnus
- Cryptorhopalum triste
- Diabrotica 12-punctata
- Euderces picipes
- Eugnamptus angustatus
- Mordella triloba
- Mordellistena pubescens
- Pentaria trifasciata
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- Podabrus brunnicollis
- Typocerus lugubris
Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA
Flies 21
- Anthrax sinuosa
- Chlorops proxima
- Cistogaster occidua
- Drosophila varia
- Elachiptera flavida
- Empis loripedis
- Metopia leucocephala
- Orthoneura nitida
- Pipiza femoralis
- Sapromyza vulgaris
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- Scatopse pulicaria
- Sepsis violacea
- Siphona geniculata
- Siphonella inquilina
- Syrphus americanus
- Syrphus ribesii
- Volucella vesiculosa
- Xanthogramma emarginata
- Xanthomelana arcuata
- Zodion fulvifrons
- Zodion nanellum
Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA
Other wasps 10
- Anacrabro ocellatus
- Ancistrocerus tigris
- Cerceris clypeata
- Ceropales fraterna
- Leionotus perennis
- Oxybelus 4-notatus
- Polyblastus citripes
- Polysphincta slossinae
- Pseudagenia mellipes
- Symmorphus debilis
Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA
Other insects 1
- Corimelaena lateralis
Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA
No records yet · Ants · Adult butterflies / moths
Growing and identification
Plant details
- Family
- Apiaceae
- Hardiness
- Zones 4–8
- Flower color
- White
- Fruit begins
- June
- Fruit ends
- August
Growing sources and scope
- Bloom · “May to June” · Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition (ranked first; Prairie Moon 2026 Cultural Guide differs) · Carolinas and Georgia
- Flower color · “White” · Prairie Moon 2026 Cultural Guide · Nursery cultural guide; height in flower; moisture categories retained as printed
- Fruit begins · “June” · Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition · Carolinas and Georgia
- Fruit ends · “August” · Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition · Carolinas and Georgia
- Hardiness · “Zones 4–8” · Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
- Height · “1–3 feet” · Tennessee Smart Yards (ranked first; Prairie Moon 2026 Cultural Guide differs) · Published Tennessee growing guidance; exact cached scientific heading
- Life cycle · “Perennial” · Minnesota Wildflowers
- Light · “Part to full shade” · Tennessee Smart Yards (ranked first; Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder, Prairie Moon 2026 Cultural Guide differ) · Published Tennessee growing guidance; exact cached scientific heading
- primary_flower_color · “white” · Prairie Moon 2026 Cultural Guide
- Soil · “moderately wet to moderately dry” · Tennessee Smart Yards (ranked first; Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder, Prairie Moon 2026 Cultural Guide differ) · Published Tennessee growing guidance; exact cached scientific heading
- Spread · “9 inches–2 feet” · Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
Also known as
Honewort
Conservation status
| Florida rank | S1 |
|---|---|
| Global rank | G5 |
| FL status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
In your garden
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Growing cautions
- Spreads aggressively. Can re-seed aggressively. Tennessee Smart Yards
For planning only; these do not change the score or Fit.
Sources
- Atlas of Florida Plants
- USDA PLANTS
- Vascular Plants of North Carolina (NC Natural Heritage Program)
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition
- NatureServe Explorer
- Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
- Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- 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
- Hurlbert, Olsen, Sawyer & Winner 2021, Avian Diet Database, Scientific Data 8: 260 (CC0)
- Narango, Tallamy & Shropshire 2020, Few keystone plant genera support the majority of Lepidoptera species, Nature Communications