Florida Bully (subsp. reclinatum) is a perennial shrub native to the lower 48 states. It grows to 2 ft and blooms May. A host for pollen-specialist native bees.
Sow timing keys off your local last- and first-frost dates.
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.
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 Sideroxylon in North America, including:
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).
✦ Beesspecialist-bee host▸
Specialist native bees depend on it.
Some native bees are pollen specialists (oligolectic) — they raise young only on pollen
from particular plant genera. Sideroxylon is a recorded
specialist-bee host, so losing it can mean losing the bee that relies on it.
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.
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