Flag Pawpaw

Understory shrub.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Difficult to transplant because of long taproot.

Small mammals and birds harvest the fruit.

Dry hammocks, dry hardwood forests, sandhill, clayhill, scrub

• Showy flowers, Interesting foliage
• Larval host for zebra swallowtail (Eurytides marcellus) and pawpaw sphinx (Dolba hyloeus).
• Pollinated by flies and beetles.