Rattlesnake Master; Button Eryngo

Eryngium yuccifolium var. yuccifolium

Found in glades, barrens and outcrops on mafic or serpentine rock; pine savannas; pine flatwoods; prairies and grasslands. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), South Central edition What its natural habitat tells you

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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 6 Mississippi counties.

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

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Open, thin-soil openings, outcrops and cliffs on dark, magnesium- or iron-rich rock such as serpentine, diabase or gabbro.

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.

Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

Ecological relationships

7CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including MS

Genus host records with ranges including MS · Eryngium

Papilio polyxenesBlack Swallowtail, Celery Caterpillar, Fennel Worm, Desert Black Swallowtail, Parsnip Swallowtail
Spodoptera frugiperdaFall Armyworm Moth
Spoladea recurvalisHawaiian Beet Webworm
Udea rubigalisCelery Leaftier
Vanessa carduiPainted Lady, Cosmopolite
Coleotechnites eryngiella
Paralobesia rhoifructana