General Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wildflower and butterfly gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
	It can be used as one of many understory herbs in pine rocklands.
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts.
Description:
	Medium perennial herbaceous wildflower.
Dimensions:
	Typically 1-3 feet in height. Sometimes as tall as broad, but often spreading.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Southeastern United States south to the Monroe County Keys. Very rare in South Florida outside of Miami-Dade County. Perhaps never present or exirpated in Broward County. Presumed extirpated in the Monroe County Keys where collected once on Big Pine Keys in 1912.
Habitats:
	Pine rocklands.
Soils:
	Moist, well-drained limestone or 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:
	Yellow petals; red anthers.
Flower Characteristics:
	Showy.
Flowering Season:
	All year.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous pod (legume).
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Provides food for birds. Larval host plant for cloudless sulphur (Phoebis sennae) butterflies.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed. Plant in a pot with 2" or more of potting soil and spinkle soil over seeds to just cover them. Place in full sun or light shade. Keep moist.
Comments:
	Distinguished from the annual partridge pea (C. fasciculata) by its red (vs. yellow) anthers.