Photographs are not available yet.
Ecological relationships
Who uses this plant?
3CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including KY
Genus host records with ranges including KY · Lippia
- Automeris ioIo Moth
- Junonia coeniaCommon Buckeye
- Manduca rusticaRustic Sphinx
29BeesSoutheastern regional records
Southeastern regional records · Phyla
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
—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claimFlies 12
- Archytas analis
- Eristalis latifrons
- Exoprosopa fasciata
- Exoprosopa fascipennis
- Helophilus latifrons
- Orthoneura nitida
- Siphoplagia anomala
- Spallanzania hesperidarum
- Sphaerophoria cylindrica
- Systoechus vulgaris
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- Trichophora ruficauda
- Tropidia quadrata
Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA
Adult butterflies / moths 4
- Ancyloxypha numitor
- Eurema lisa
- Limochores taumas
- Phyciodes tharos
Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA
Other wasps 5
- Bicyrtes ventralis
- Leionotus clypeatus
- Priononyx atrata
- Sphex nigricans
- Sphex vulgaris
Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA
No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Other insects
Growing and identification
Plant details
- Family
- Verbenaceae
- Flower color
- White, yellow or purple
Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.
Growing sources and scope
- Flower color · “White, yellow or purple” · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
- Height · “6 inches–1.66667 feet” · Minnesota Wildflowers
- Life cycle · “Perennial” · Minnesota Wildflowers
- Light · “Full sun (documented habitat)” · FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team) · Carolinas and Georgia
- Soil · “Moist; Wet (documented habitat)” · FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team) · Carolinas and Georgia
Also known as
Lance Leaf Fogfruit; Lance Leaf Frog Fruit; Lippia lanceolata
Conservation status
| Kentucky rank | S5 |
|---|---|
| Global rank | G5 |
| KY status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
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Sources
- tnky_atlas
- usda
- nc_flora
- 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