General Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wet wildflower and butterfly gardens.
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts.
Description:
	Small to medium annual herb.
Dimensions:
	About 6-18 inches in height. Usually taller than broad.
Growth Rate:
	Fast.
Range:
	Eastern and central United States west to Texas and south to Miami-Dade and Collier counties; West Indies.
Habitats:
	Swamps and wet disturbed sites.
Soils:
	Wet to moist, well-drained to poorly-drained sandy or organic soils, with humusy top layer.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Moderate; can grow in nutrient poor soils, but needs some organic content to thrive.
Salt Water Tolerance:
	Low; does not tolerate flooding by salt or brackish water.
Salt Wind Tolerance:
	Low; salt wind may burn the leaves.
Drought Tolerance:
	Low; requires moist to wet soils and is intolerant of long periods of drought.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun.
Flower Color:
	White.
Flower Characteristics:
	Semi-showy.
Flowering Season:
	All year.
Fruit:
	A pair of inconspicuous carpels pendent from a supporting axis.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Larval host plant for black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes) butterflies.
Comments:
	Somewhat weedy.