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Monkeypod

Pithecellobium dulce

Found in hammocks, disturbed areas. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Florida edition What its natural habitat tells you

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Not native

Not native to Florida. How scores work Is it native here?

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At a glance

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

This plant is missing most of its facts, so Quercus is looking them up in old botany books.

Recorded in 3 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 Plain hammocks

Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

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

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Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

19CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including FL

Genus host records with ranges including FL · Pithecellobium

  • Ascalapha odorataBlack Witch
  • Coxina cinctipalpisBlack-Waved Owlet
  • Cyclargus thomasiMiami Blue
  • Leptotes cassiusCassius Blue, Tropical Striped Blue
  • Melipotis januarisJanuary Melipotis, January Graphic
  • Phoebis agaritheLarge Orange Sulphur, Orange Giant Sulphur
  • Phoebis phileaOrange-Barred Sulphur
  • Platynota rostranaOmnivorous Platynota
  • Pleuroprucha insulsariaCommon Tan Wave
  • Selenisa sueroidesTailpipes, Pale-Edged Selenisa Moth
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  • Synchlora xysterariaSinged Emerald
  • Tyrissa multilineaThe Bravo, Multi-Lined Tyrissa
  • Cydia fahlbergiana
  • Cydia largo
  • Eucosmophora pithecellobiae
  • Ithome aquila
  • Ithome simulatrix
  • Phidotricha erigens
  • Sarasota plumigerella
Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
—BeesSoutheastern regional records
—Specialist beesPollen specialists
—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim
Growing and identification

Plant details

Family
Fabaceae

Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.

Conservation status

Florida rankSNA
Global rankNot available
FL statusNot verified
Federal statusNot verified

Conservation source

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