Black Mimosa
Mimosa pigra
Found in disturbed wet areas, mangroves, marshes. FloraQuest, phone app (app page) What its natural habitat tells you
Not native to Florida. How scores work Is it native here?
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Do not plant. Listed invasive in Florida.
At a glance
Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom
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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.
Disturbed and introduced wetlands
Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.
Tidal forests and thickets of red, black and white mangrove along sheltered tropical and subtropical shores.
Who uses this plant?
20CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including FL
Genus host records with ranges including FL · Mimosa
- Adelphia petrellaRusty-Banded Adelphia
- Diphthera festivaHieroglyphic Moth
- Eurema dairaBarred Yellow, Barred Sulphur
- Hemiargus ceraunusCeraunus Blue, Antillean Blue
- Ithome concolorellaKiawe Flower Moth
- Ministrymon aziaGray Ministreak, Azia Hairstreak, Light-Banded Hairstreak
- Oiketicus abbotiiAbbot's Bagworm Moth
- Orgyia leucostigmaWhite-Marked Tussock Moth
- Platynota stultanaOmnivorous Leafroller
- Pleuroprucha insulsariaCommon Tan Wave
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- Psamatodes abydataDot-Lined Angle
- Pyrisitia lisaLittle Yellow, Little Sulphur, Lisa Yellow
- Pyrisitia niseMimosa Yellow, Blacktip Sulphur, Jamaican Sulphur
- Rudenia leguminanaBlack-Tipped Rudenia Moth
- Spodoptera latifasciaOrange-Striped Armyworm, Velvet Armyworm Moth
- Zale lunataLunate Zale
- Amorbia concavana
- Lesmone formularis
- Megalorhipida leucodactylus
- Phidotricha erigens
—BeesSoutheastern regional records
—Specialist beesPollen specialists
4BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim
Recorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim · Mimosa
- Callipepla gambeliiGambel's Quail
- Colinus virginianusNorthern Bobwhite
- Cyrtonyx montezumaeMontezuma Quail
- Francolinus francolinusBlack Francolin
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
Plant details
- Family
- Fabaceae
Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.
Conservation status
| Florida rank | SNA |
|---|---|
| Global rank | Not available |
| FL status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
Native alternatives
Find natives for your gardenSources
- Atlas of Florida Plants
- Florida Invasive Species Council list
- 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