Florida Pinkroot

Spigelia loganioides

Found in wet calcareous hammocks. FloraQuest, phone app (app page) What its natural habitat tells you

Modest

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 5 Florida counties.

Natural habitats

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

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.

All habitats

Also found with this plant

Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in Florida. Shared habitat, not food. 161 animals.

Bald Eagle
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Dendrocygna autumnalis
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticorax
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Chimney Swift
Chaetura pelagica
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Common Nighthawk
Chordeiles minor
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Cooper's Hawk
Accipiter cooperii
Birds. 2 shared habitats
European Starling
Sturnus vulgaris
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Great Egret
Ardea alba
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Great Horned Owl
Bubo virginianus
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Hooded Merganser
Lophodytes cucullatus
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Northern Cardinal
Cardinalis cardinalis
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Osprey
Pandion haliaetus
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Red-tailed Hawk
Buteo jamaicensis
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Red-winged Blackbird
Agelaius phoeniceus
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Savannah Sparrow
Passerculus sandwichensis
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Accipiter striatus
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Snowy Egret
Egretta thula
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes aura
Birds. 2 shared habitats
White-throated Sparrow
Zonotrichia albicollis
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Yellow-breasted Chat
Icteria virens
Birds. 2 shared habitats
Yellow-crowned Night-heron
Nyctanassa violacea
Birds. 2 shared habitats
American Avocet
Recurvirostra americana
Birds. 1 shared habitat
American Bittern
Botaurus lentiginosus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
American Black Duck
Anas rubripes
Birds. 1 shared habitat

All wildlife of Florida

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

1CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including FL

Genus host records with ranges including FL · Spigelia

Cydosia nobilitellaRegal Cydosia, Curve-Lined Cydosia Moth

Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)

0BeesSoutheastern regional records

0Specialist beesPollen specialists

—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim

No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family: Loganiaceae

Conservation status

Florida rank	S2
Global rank	Not available
FL status	Not verified
Federal status	Not verified

Conservation source

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