Landscape Uses:
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Rarely grown due to its fast growing and prolific nature.
Description:
	Medium herbaceous clumping grass.
Height:
	Typically 1-2 feet in height; may exceed 3 feet when in flower. As broad as tall except when flowering.
Growth Rate:
	Fast to moderate.
Range:
	Southern United States south to the Monroe County Keys; West Indies, Mexico, Central America, and South America.
Habitats:
	A wide variety of sunny, moist, upland habitats and disturbed sites.
Soils:
	Moist to occasionally wet, well-drained to moderately well-drained, sandy, limestone, or organic soils, without humusy top layer.
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:
	High; can tolerate moderate amounts of salt wind without significant injury.
Drought Tolerance:
	High; does not require any supplemental water once established.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun.
Flower Color:
	Brownish inflorescence.
Flower Characteristics:
	Semi-showy inflorescence.
Flowering Season:
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous caryopsis.
Wildlife and Ecology:
Horticultural Notes:
	Can easily be grown from seed.
Comments:
	Spreads readily from seed in the garden.