Broombush Falsewillow
Baccharis dioica
Native to Louisiana. 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 1 Louisiana parish.
Who uses this plant?
29CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including LA
Genus host records with ranges including LA · Baccharis
- Anavitrinella pampinariaCommon Gray, Cranberry Spanworm
- Condica vidensWhite-Dotted Groundling
- Cremastobombycia solidaginisGoldenrod Leafminer
- Ctenoplusia oxygrammaSharp-Stigma Looper Moth
- Dichomeris serrativittellaToothed Dichomeris
- Epiblema discretivanaDescriminating Epiblema
- Estigmene acreaSalt Marsh Moth, Acrea Moth
- Eupithecia miserulataCommon Eupithacia, Common Pug
- Eusarca fundariaDark-Edged Eusarca
- Hellinsia balanotesBaccharis Borer Plume Moth, Groundsel Plume Moth
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- Hellinsia kellicottiiGoldenrod Borer Plume Moth
- Homoeosoma electellaSunflower Moth
- Iridopsis defectariaBrown-Shaded Gray, Willow Looper
- Lioptilodes albistriolatusMousy Plume Moth
- Macaria varadariaSouthern Angle
- Platynota stultanaOmnivorous Leafroller
- Pleuroprucha insulsariaCommon Tan Wave
- Prionoxystus robiniaeCarpenterworm Moth, Black Locust Borer, Cottonwood Borer
- Sonia paraplesianaHebrew Sonia
- Sparganothis sulfureanaSparganothis Fruitworm Moth, Sulfur Leafroller, False Yellow-Head
- Spodoptera frugiperdaFall Armyworm Moth
- Spodoptera ornithogalliYellow-Striped Armyworm Moth, Cotton Cutworm
- Spragueia onagrusBlack-Dotted Spragueia
- Tallula watsoniWatson's Tallula
- Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformisEvergreen Bagworm Moth
- Aristotelia ivae
- Bucculatrix ivella
- Hellinsia lacteodactylus
- Lorita baccharivora
21BeesSoutheastern regional records
Southeastern regional records · Baccharis
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
6Specialist beesPollen specialists
Pollen specialists · Baccharis
- Andrena hirticincta
- Colletes simulans
- Colletes thysanellae
- Dieunomia nevadensis
- Perdita octomaculata
- Protandrena albitarsis
—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claimNo records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects
Plant details
- Family
- Asteraceae
Conservation status
| Louisiana rank | S1 |
|---|---|
| Global rank | Not available |
| LA status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
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Sources
- NatureServe Explorer
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025)
- Louisiana occurrence source
- 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