Burrowing Four-o'clock

Okenia hypogaea

Found in ocean beaches, Florida scrub. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Florida edition What its natural habitat tells you

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Native to Florida. How scores work Is it native here?

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Rare or protected plant. Specialist conservation planting; excluded from routine garden suggestions. Plant caution source

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At a glance

Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom

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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.

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Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

Florida scrub

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.

All habitats

Also found with this plant

Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in Florida. Shared habitat, not food. 70 animals.

American Avocet
Recurvirostra americana
Birds. 2 shared habitats
American Oystercatcher
Haematopus palliatus
Birds. 2 shared habitats
American White Pelican
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Antillean Nighthawk
Chordeiles gundlachii
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Bank Swallow
Riparia riparia
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Black Skimmer
Rynchops niger
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Black-bellied Plover
Pluvialis squatarola
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticorax
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Boat-tailed Grackle
Quiscalus major
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Bonaparte's Gull
Chroicocephalus philadelphia
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Brown Pelican
Pelecanus occidentalis
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Caspian Tern
Hydroprogne caspia
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Chimney Swift
Chaetura pelagica
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Common Ground-dove
Columbina passerina
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Common Loon
Gavia immer
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Common Tern
Sterna hirundo
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Double-crested Cormorant
Phalacrocorax auritus
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Dunlin
Calidris alpina
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Eastern Brown Pelican
Pelecanus occidentalis carolinensis
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Fish Crow
Corvus ossifragus
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Forster's Tern
Sterna forsteri
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Gray Kingbird
Tyrannus dominicensis
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Great Egret
Ardea alba
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Great Horned Owl
Bubo virginianus
Birds. 2 shared habitats