General Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations.
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts.
Description:
	Small creeping herb.
Dimensions:
	About 3-6 inches tall. Spreading and forming small open patches broader than tall.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Monroe County Keys and Miami-Dade County; West Indies, Mexico and Guatemala. In the Monroe County Keys, disjunct from Miami-Dade County to the pine rocklands of Big Pine Key.
Habitats:
	Marl prairies and pine rocklands.
Soils:
	Moist to seasonally wet, moderately well-drained marl soils, without humus.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Low; it grows in nutrient poor soils.
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:
	Yellow.
Flower Characteristics:
	Semi-showy.
Flowering Season:
	All year.
Fruit:
	Jointed pod (legume), with 1 fertile seed and a hooked tip.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Larval host plant for barred yellow (Eurema daira) butterflies.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed.
Comments:
	It is listed as endangered by the state of Florida. For more information, visit our Floristic Inventory of South Florida Database Online.