Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wildflower and butterfly gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Native plant nurseries.
Description:
	Prostrate herbaceous wildflower.
Height:
	About 1 inch in height; to 3 inches when in flower. Spreading along the ground and forming large open mats.
Growth Rate:
	Fast.
Range:
	Southeastern United States, Missouri and Texas south to Miami-Dade, Hendry and Lee counties. Sporadic and mostly weedy in sandy disturbed sites in South Florida. Never vouchered for Broward, Palm Beach, Glades or Charlotte counties.
Habitats:
	Open, usually disturbed, sites.
Soils:
	Moist to dry, well-drained sandy soils, without humus.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Low; it grows in nutrient poor soils.
Salt Water Tolerance:
	Low; does not tolerate long-term flooding by salt or brackish water.
Salt Wind Tolerance:
	Moderate; grows near salt water, but is protected from direct salt spray by other vegetation.
Drought Tolerance:
	High; does not require any supplemental water once established.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun.
Flower Color:
	Pink.
Flower Characteristics:
	Showy.
Flowering Season:
	Spring-summer.
Fruit:
	Small brown pod (legume).
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Larval host plant for little yellow (Eurema lisa) butterflies.
Comments:
	A very attractive mat-forming plant.