Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
	The dominant species of much of the Everglades. Also present in a number of other wetland ecosystems including wet pinelands.
Availability:
	Native plant nurseries.
Description:
	Large herbaceous sedge with saw-toothes leaf margins.
Height:
	Typically 3-6 feet in height; to 10 feet when in flower. Clonal and sometimes spreading and forming large patches.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Southern United States west to New Mexico and south to the Monroe County Keys; West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America.
Habitats:
	Marshes, wet prairies and wet pinelands.
Soils:
	Wet, seasonally inundated freshwater to brackish soils on a variety of substrates.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Moderate; can grow in nutrient poor soils, but needs some organic content to thrive.
Salt Water Tolerance:
	Low to moderate; may tolerate some brackish water or occasional inundation by salt water.
Salt Wind Tolerance:
	Moderate; grows near salt water, but is protected from direct salt spray by other vegetation.
Drought Tolerance:
	Low; requires moist to wet soils and is intolerant of long periods of drought.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun to light shade.
Flower Color:
	Brown inflorescence.
Flower Characteristics:
	Semi-showy inflorescence.
Flowering Season:
	Summer-fall.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous achene.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	This is the dominant species of the Everglades marsh, especially in the Shark River Slough. Larval host plant for Palatka skipper (Euphyes pilatka) butterflies.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed.
Comments:
	Sawgrass is aptly named as the edges of the leaves are armed with tiny, sawlike prickles. Technically it is not a grass, but a sedge.