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Carolina Crownbeard

Verbesina walteri

Found in floodplains, low moist forests. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), South Central edition What its natural habitat tells you

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Native to Mississippi. How scores work Is it native here?

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Height
Up to about 12 feet
Light
Partial shade, Full shade, Full sun
Soil moisture
Moist to wet
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At a glance

Life cycle
Perennial
Bloom
August to September

Not yet recorded · Spread · Leaves

Recorded in 17 Mississippi counties.

Natural habitats

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

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Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

Moist forests

Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.

All habitats

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

19CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including MS

Genus host records with ranges including MS · Verbesina

  • Chlosyne nycteisSilvery Checkerspot
  • Acharia stimuleaSaddleback Caterpillar Moth
  • Anthanassa texanaTexan Crescent
  • Basilodes pepitaGold Moth, Crownbeard Seedcropper
  • Cirrhophanus trianguliferGoldenrod Stowaway, Beggarticks Seedcropper
  • Dichomeris setosellaHairy Dichomeris
  • Dysodia oculatanaEyed Thyris
  • Euphydryas phaetonThe Baltimore, The Black Checker
  • Homoeosoma electellaSunflower Moth
  • Lascoria ambigualisAmbiguous Moth, Ambiguous Litter Moth
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  • Ogdoconta cinereolaCommon Pinkband Groundling
  • Phyciodes tharosPearl Crescent, Crescentspot
  • Schinia binaBina Flower Moth
  • Schinia sirenAluring Schinia Moth
  • Spilosoma virginicaVirginian Tiger Moth, Yellow Woolybear Moth, Yellow Bear
  • Strymon melinusGray Hairstreak
  • Synchlora frondariaSouthern Emerald
  • Adaina bipunctatus
  • Agonopterix eupatoriiella
Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
40BeesSoutheastern regional records

Southeastern regional records · Verbesina

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
4Specialist beesPollen specialists

Pollen specialists · Verbesina

  • Andrena aliciae
  • Calliopsis coloradensis
  • Colletes compactus
  • Megachile xylocopoides
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
1BirdsRecorded eating Verbesina in Mississippi

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Birds whose range includes Mississippi, most records first.

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab)

Direct food only. Caterpillars on host plants also feed nesting birds. NC Native Plant Society: butterfly gardening

No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects

Birds that eat Verbesina 1

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family
Asteraceae
Flower color
White

Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.

Growing sources and scope

Conservation status

Mississippi rankS3S4
Global rankG4
MS statusNot verified
Federal statusNot verified

Conservation source Global and federal source

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