Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
	A common understory grass in a wide variety of pinelands and prairies.
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts.
Description:
	Small herbaceous grass.
Height:
	About 6-12 inches in height. Taller than broad.
Growth Rate:
	Fast.
Range:
	Eastern and central United States west to Texas and south to the Monroe County Keys; West Indies, Mexico, Central America and northern South America. In the Monroe County Keys, disjunct from Miami-Dade County to the pine rocklands of Big Pine Key.
Habitats:
	Pinelands.
Soils:
	Moist, well-drained sandy or limestone soils, without humus.
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:
	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:
	Inconspicuous.
Flowering Season:
	Spring-fall.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous caryopsis.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	In central Florida, it is the larval host plant for tawny-edged skipper (Potites themistocles).
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