Fields, roadsides, clearings, and other open, disturbed habitats; most abundant in severely burned areas, clear-cuts, and other habitats with heavy soil disturbance; also frequent in various moist to wet natural habitats. Common in the Virginia Coastal Plain and outer Piedmont; rare in the inner Piedmont
Attracts bees and wasps. Adult males of Florida's scarlet-bodied wasp moth, (Cosmosoma myrodora) feed on the plant to obtain toxins to ward off predators. Host plant of the larvae of the moths Dichomeris aglaia and Estigmene acrea.
Weedy
High Value Generalist
Earth Sangha lists this plant as a "High Value Generalist" because it is easy to grow, occurs across a wide range of habitats and is known to be of high value to wildlife
Contains liver-damaging alkaloids. Do not consume the plant
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