Common Name:

coastalplain honeycombhead, yellow buttons

Synonym(s):

Genus species:

Balduina angustifolia

Family:

Asteraceae (Compositae)

Form:

flower

Size:

2-3 ft tall by 0.5 ft wide

Life Span:

annual

Flower Color:

yellow

Fruit Color:

Phenology:

annual, but seeds sprout shortly after flowering with a small rosette overwintering to flower in the next summer-fall

Noted For:

Recommended Uses:

Casual wildflower bed, typically to the back as the flower stalks are tall.  We recommend treating this like a biennial.

Considerations:

Not drought tolerant

Availability:

Propagation:

Seed. It may reseed on its own, but there is a necessity to recognize the 1st year rosette. Will only reseed in sandy open areas.

Light:

Moisture Tolerance:

Always Flooded------------------------------------------------Extremely Dry

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Not wet but not extremely dry ---to--- Very long very dry periods

Salt Water Flooding Tolerance:

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water

Salt Spray/Salty Soil Tolerance:

Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Soil or Other Substrate:

Sand

Soil pH:

acidic to circum-neutral

Suitable to Grow In:

8A, 8B, 9A, 9B, 10A, 10B

Wildlife:

Native Habitats:

Open, dry sites. Naturally grows in scrub and scrubby flatwoods.

Natural Range in Florida:

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Ethnobotany:

General Comments:

The first year, this plant is a small rosette. The second year, it grows in height and flowers. Balduina angustifolia is endemic to the southeastern coastal plain from Mississippi to Georgia with most of its range being within Florida (BONAP 2014). 

Archbold bee study (scientific names):

Attracts many  insects , especially bees including Perdita bequaerti, Agapostemon splendens, Augochlora pura, Augochlorella aurata, Augochloropsis sumptuosa, Dialictus coreopsis, D. miniatulus, D. nymphalis, D. placidensis, D. tegularis, Evylaeus pectoralis, Halictus ligatus, Nomia heteropoda, Anthidiellum notatum rufimaculatum, A. perplexum, Coelioxys dolichos, C. germana, C. mexicana, C. sayi, C. texana, Megachile albitarsis, M. brevis pseudobrevis, Mgeorgica, M. inimica, M. mendica, M. petulans, M. policaris, M. pruina, M. texana, M. xylocopoides, Dolichostelis louisae, Trachusa fontemuitae, Nomada fervida, Svastra aegis, Apis mellifera, Bombus impatiens, B. pennsyl.uanicus, Xylocopa micans,  and X. virginica krombeini  (Deyrup et al. 2002).