Tillandsia Setacea prefer sub tropic environments with warm and humid forests. It is widly distributed and found native in southwestern United States (Florida, Georgia), northwestern and southern Mexico (Jalisco, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Campeche), Guatemala, the West Indies (Cayman Islands, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico) and the State of ParĂ¡ in northeastern Brazil. It will grow in abundance on just about anything it can attach to.