Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Grown by a few native plant nurseries.
Description:
	Medium herbaceous grass.
Height:
	About 1-2 feet in height; to 4 feet when in flower. About as broad as tall except when in flower.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Southeastern United States west to Louisiana and south to Palm Beach, Highlands and Hillsborough counties.
Habitats:
	Wet pinelands.
Soils:
	Wet to moist, seasonally inundated sandy soils, without humus, acid pH.
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:
	Low; requires moist to wet soils and is intolerant of long periods of drought.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun.
Flower Color:
	Brownish inflorescence.
Flower Characteristics:
	Semi-showy inflorescence.
Flowering Season:
	Spring-summer.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous caryopsis.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	In the Florida Panhandle, it is the larval host plant of arogos skipper (Atrytone arogos) butterflies. Attracts pollinators.
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