Habitat: Most characteristic of moist, low fields, meadows, roadsides, and clearings; less numerous in natural habitats such as floodplain forests, swamps, riverside prairies, upland depression swamps, and drier forests and woodlands on base-rich soils. Frequent in the Piedmont; infrequent in the Coastal Plain and mountains.
Wildlife Value: This plant provides nectar for pollinators. Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia) larvae. Caterpillars eat the host plant's leaves while adults feed on the nectar of composite flowers including aster, chicory, gumweed, knapweed, and tickseed sunflower. Bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds are attracted to its blooms.
Earth Sangha Inventory
Founded in 1997, the Earth Sangha is a nonprofit public charity based in the Washington, DC, region. The Wild Plant Nursery is the most comprehensive source of local-ecotype, native plants in the Washington DC region, and the region’s only facility dedicated exclusively to this type of propagation. “Local-ecotype” plants are propagated from local, wild, naturally-occurring populations and are well-adapted to local conditions and for wildlife species that depend on the local forms, such as pollinators. Inventory is updated on a weekly basis so number may not be accurate.
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