Landscape Uses:
	A delicate annual wildflower.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
	A frequent component of pineland communities, but a hemiparasite and thus difficult in cultivation. Direct seeding, however, may be a practical dispersal mechanism.
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts.
Description:
	Medium herbaceous wildflower.
Height:
	About 1-4 feet in height. Generally taller than broad.
Growth Rate:
	Fast.
Range:
	Widespread in the eastern and central United States south to Miami-Dade County; Greater Antilles.
Habitats:
	Wet to mesic pinelands.
Soils:
	Wet to moist, seasonally inundated sandy or calcareous 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:
	Pink to purple.
Flower Characteristics:
	Showy.
Flowering Season:
	Summer-fall.
Fruit:
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Larval host plant for common buckeye (Junonia coenia) butterflies.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed.
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