Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also useful as a base plant for wildflower gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
	An occasional understory grass in a wide variety of pinelands and drier prairies in South Florida.
Availability:
	Commonly available at native plant nurseries in central Florida. Available at native plant nurseries in northeast and South Florida.
Description:
	Medium herbaceous clumping grass, with narrow in-rolled leaves.
Height:
	Typically 1-2 feet in height; to 3 feet when in flower. As broad as tall except when flowering.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Southeastern United States south to Miami-Dade and Collier counties. More common to the north of our area.
Habitats:
	Pinelands and scrub.
Soils:
	Moist to dry, well-drained sandy 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:
	High; does not require any supplemental water once established.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun.
Flower Color:
	Brownish inflorescence.
Flower Characteristics:
	Semi-showy inflorescence.
Flowering Season:
	Spring-fall.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous caryopsis.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Provides food for birds and attracts pollinators. An obligate of fire-maintained ecosystems, southern wiregrass requires fire for successful flowering and seed set.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed.
Comments:
	See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's Flower Friday page.