Lanceleaf Frogfruit
Phyla lanceolata
Found in oligohaline tidal marshes, tidal swamps, maritime swamps, dune swales and ponds, other marshes, seasonally exposed shores of rivers, ditches. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), South Central edition What its natural habitat tells you
Native to Mississippi. How scores work Is it native here?
Profile 76%
- Height
- 6–20 inches
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil moisture
- Moist to wet
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At a glance
- Life cycle
- Perennial
Not yet recorded · Spread · Leaves · Bloom
Bloom: NC species account not read yet.
Spread and leaves: no source found yet.
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Recorded in 22 Mississippi counties.
Natural habitats
Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)
Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.
Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
Open, herb-covered wetlands with fresh, non-tidal water.
Streams, rivers and their banks
Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Who uses this plant?
6CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including MS
Genus host records with ranges including MS · Phyla
- Chlosyne gorgoneGorgone Checkerspot
- Feltia subterraneaSubterranean Dart, Granulate Cutworm
- Junonia coeniaCommon Buckeye
- Orphanostigma haemorrhoidalisLantana Leaftier
- Phyciodes phaonPhaon Crescent, Crescentspot
- Stenoptilodes taprobanesNarrow Plume Moth
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
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 · “6–20 inches” · Minnesota Wildflowers
- Life cycle · “Perennial” · Minnesota Wildflowers
- Light · “Full sun (documented habitat)” · Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition · Carolinas and Georgia
- Soil · “Moist; Wet (documented habitat)” · Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition · Carolinas and Georgia
Also known as
Lance Leaf Fogfruit; Lance Leaf Frog Fruit; Lippia lanceolata
Conservation status
| Mississippi rank | SNR |
|---|---|
| Global rank | G5 |
| MS status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
Will it fit your yard?
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Sources
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), South Central edition
- USDA PLANTS
- Vascular Plants of North Carolina (NC Natural Heritage Program)
- Mississippi 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