Landscape Uses:
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts. Available in Miami at Dade County FNPS.
Description:
	Shrub with slender, purplish branches typically 3-5 feet tall, reaching up to 9 feet in height. Compound leaves up to 7 inches long with 11-29 leaflets, each up to one inch long. Small white to pale lavender flowers in showy racemes 7 inches in length.
Height:
	Typically 3-5 feet in height.
Growth Rate:
Range:
	Endemic to Miami-Dade county.
Habitats:
	Pine Rocklands
Soils:
	Moist, well-drained limestone 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:
	Low; salt wind may burn the leaves.
Drought Tolerance:
	High; does not require any supplemental water once established.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun
Flower Color:
	White to pale lavender.
Flower Characteristics:
	Showy.
Flowering Season:
	Spring to summer.
Fruit:
	Small pod.
Wildlife and Ecology:
Horticultural Notes:
Comments:
	Very attractive bloom spike. See also Florida Natural Areas Inventory's Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Florida page (Chafin 2000).