Pieris phillyreifolia
Pieris phillyreifolia
Found in acidic swamp forests. 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?
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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 Mississippi county.
Natural habitats
Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.
Also found with this plant
Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in Mississippi. Shared habitat, not food. 141 animals.
- Yellow-throated WarblerDendroica dominica
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- American CootFulica americana
- AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
- White-eyed VireoVireo griseus
- Wood StorkMycteria americana
- Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
Who uses this plant?
2CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including MS
Genus host records with ranges including MS · Pieris
- Cecrita biundataWavy-Lined Heterocampa
- Phlogophora periculosaBrown Angle Shades
10BeesSoutheastern regional records
Southeastern regional records · Pieris
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
1Specialist beesPollen specialists
—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
- ERICACEAE
Conservation status
| Mississippi rank | S1 |
|---|---|
| Global rank | Not available |
| MS status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
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Sources
- NatureServe Explorer
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), South Central edition
- 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