Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. It can also be used as a groundcover in water gardens and along pond and lake edges.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
	A relatively common element of a wide variety of freshwater wetlands.
Availability:
	Commonly available at native plant nurseries in central Florida.
Description:
	Small creeping wildflower. Leaves aromatic when crushed.
Height:
	Typically 3-6 inches in height or less. Spreading and forming large patches.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Southeastern United States west to Texas and south to Miami-Dade County and the Monroe County mainland.
Habitats:
	Freshwater marshes, swamps and pond margins.
Soils:
	Wet to moist, seasonally inundated organic, sandy or calcareous soils, with or without humusy top layer.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Moderate to low; it prefers soils with organic content, but will still grow reasonably well 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:
	Blue.
Flower Characteristics:
	Showy. Fragrant.
Flowering Season:
	All year.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous capsule.
Wildlife and Ecology:
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from cuttings and division.
Comments:
	The leaves are lemon-scented. See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's Flower Friday page.