Mimosa strigillosa
Mimosa strigillosa
Found in floodplain forests, sandbars, open wet areas, lawns, and roadsides; also cultivated. FloraQuest, phone app (app page) What its natural habitat tells you
Native to Florida. How scores work Is it native here?
Profile 35%
- Soil moisture
- Somewhat dry to moist
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At a glance
Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom
This plant is missing most of its facts, so Quercus is looking them up in old botany books.
Recorded in 46 Florida counties.
Habitats
Floodplain and bottomland forests; streams, rivers and their banks; roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there. All habitats
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
13BeesSoutheastern regional records
Southeastern regional records · Mimosa
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
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
No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects
Plant details
- Family
- FABACEAE
Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.
Conservation status
| Florida rank | S5 |
|---|---|
| Global rank | Not available |
| FL status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
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Sources
- Atlas of Florida Plants
- FloraQuest: Florida (Weakley), phone app (app page)
- 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