Yellowtop

This species is almost always coastal occupying only a strip along the coastline and not entire counties.



Wildflower garden or tall-growing groundcover. Forms mounds that are typically wider than tall. Cut back to ground after flowering.

Tolerant of inundation with brackish water



High. Can tolerate significant and ongoing amounts of salty wind and salt spray without injury.

Becomes weedy-looking after flowering.

Depression and basin marshes, wet prairies, pine rocklands, edges of mangrove swamps, disturbed areas such as berms and dikes near the coast, edges of tidal marshes.

• Showy flowers
• Nectar plant for cassius blue (Leptotes cassius), Dorantes longtail (Urbanus dorantes), eufala skipper (Lerodea eufala), field skipper (Atalopedes campestris), Florida duskywing (Ephyriades brunneus), Florida white (Appias drusilla), great southern white (Ascia monuste), julia (Dryas iulia), large orange sulphur (Phoebis agarithe), martial scrub-hairstreak (Strymon martialis), monk skipper (Asbolis capucinus), obscure skipper (Panoquina panoquinoides), Palatka skipper (Euphyes pilatka), red-banded hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops), sachem (Atalopedes campestris), southern broken-dash (Wallengrenia otho), three-spotted skipper (Cymaenes tripunctus), twin-spot skipper (Oligorio maculata), zarucco duskywing (Erymis zarucco) and other butterflies. (IRC)
• Attracts bees.