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Coastal Plain Angelica Angelica dentata

Native
Also known as: coastalplain angelica

Coastal Plain Angelica is a perennial wildflower native to the lower 48 states.

More about this plant

Angelica dentata, the coastal plain angelica, is a species of perennial herb found in parts of the southeastern United States. A. dentata can be found in the states of Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. It occurs most commonly in upland pineland communities and tends to be restricted to native groundcover. Wikipedia →

Growing & care

USDA PLANTS · TRY
Conditions
Sources · Conditions
Cold hardiness (derived) — Hardiness
Hardiness
≥ zone 9 derived from its U.S. range
Size & form
Sources · Size & form
USDA PLANTS — Lifespan
Lifespan
Perennial
In the garden
Herb layer — Sits in the herb of a layered food forest or polyculture.Open guide →
derived roles
Species characteristics from USDA PLANTS (public domain) + TRY (CC BY) — general guidance, not a guarantee for your exact site. Deer "browsing" is documented palatability, not a deer-proof claim.

Wildlife & pollinators

How pollinator value is scored →
❧ Caterpillar hosts ~5 caterpillar species

Angelica supports ~5 caterpillar species.

Native butterfly & moth caterpillars are the base of the terrestrial food web — most songbirds rear their young almost entirely on them. As a host for native Lepidoptera this is a modest genus.

Recorded feeding on Angelica in North America, including:

Agonopterix ciliella · concealer moth Agonopterix clemensella · concealer moth Agonopterix oregonensis · concealer moth Agonopterix rosaciliella · concealer moth Depressaria angelicivora · concealer moth Depressaria pastinacella · concealer moth
+ 7 more species →
Eupithecia tripunctaria · White-Spotted Pug Idia americalis · American Idia Papaipema harrisii · Cow Parsnip Borer Moth Papilio brevicauda · Short-Tailed Swallowtail Papilio machaon · Old World Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes · Black Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon · Anise Swallowtail
Keystone count (genus-level) from Warren II 2026 (CC0) · Tallamy host-use records. Named species (a documented Nearctic sample, not exhaustive) from NHM HOSTS (CC0).
Species thumbnails re-hosted from iNaturalist — Creative Commons, credited per image (hover for credit). Click any species to see it on iNaturalist. Not exhaustive; many taxa have no openly-licensed photo yet.
Frequently grows with

Across 31 U.S. vegetation-survey plots that recorded Coastal Plain Angelica, these catalog species turned up most often in the same plot — a real field co-occurrence signal, not a planting prescription.

Longleaf Pine · 100% Elliott's Bluestem · 97% Beyrich Threeawn · 97% Dwarf Huckleberry · 87% Dixie Whitetop Aster · 84% Slimleaf Pawpaw · 77% Western Brackenfern · 77% Inkberry · 74%
"%" = share of this plant's plots that also held the species. From sPlotOpen → (Sabatini et al. 2021, CC BY 4.0) — open vegetation plots: wild community composition, not garden design.
Sources for this entry (14) Open & cited
[01] Scientific name & family — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[02] Growth habit & duration — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[03] Native status & distribution — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[04] Common name — USDA PLANTS (via GBIF)
[05] Invasive / introduced status — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503) — native status
[07] Description — Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
[08] Ecological value — Warren II 2026 (CC0) · Tallamy host-use counts
[09] Conservation rank — NatureServe Explorer (CC BY)
[10] Cold hardiness (derived) — Derived from U.S. range × USDA PHZM zones
[11] Other common names — Wikidata (CC0)
[12] Caterpillar host count — Warren II 2026 (Dryad, CC0) · Tallamy host-use counts
[13] Caterpillar species — NHM HOSTS (CC0)
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