Small's Bogbutton

Lachnocaulon minus

Found in upper margins of Coastal Plain doline ponds, other pineland situations, ditches through wet pine savannas, wet 'scrapes'. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Florida edition What its natural habitat tells you

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Not yet recorded · Spread · Leaves

Recorded in 49 Florida counties.

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

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Shallow ponds in Coastal Plain depressions, such as limesinks and the ponds in some Carolina bays, that rise and fall with the seasons.

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

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

Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in Florida. Shared habitat, not food. 197 animals.

Brown Creeper
Certhia americana
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Cape May Warbler
Dendroica tigrina
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Carolina Chickadee
Poecile carolinensis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Chuck-will's-widow
Caprimulgus carolinensis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Dark-eyed Junco
Junco hyemalis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Eastern Phoebe
Sayornis phoebe
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Field Sparrow
Spizella pusilla
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Florida Grasshoper Sparrow
Ammodramus savannarum floridanus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Florida Scrub-jay
Aphelocoma coerulescens
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Glaucous Gull
Larus hyperboreus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon nilotica
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Killdeer
Charadrius vociferus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Lapland Longspur
Calcarius lapponicus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Le Conte's Sparrow
Ammodramus leconteii
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Least Flycatcher
Empidonax minimus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Least Tern
Sternula antillarum
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Mallard
Anas platyrhynchos
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Merlin
Falco columbarius
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Mississippi Kite
Ictinia mississippiensis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Mottled Duck
Anas fulvigula
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Ammodramus nelsoni
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Northern Bobwhite
Colinus virginianus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Northern Parula
Parula americana
Birds. 1 shared habitat