Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also butterfly gardens and water gardens and along pond and lake edges.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts.
Description:
	Small creeping herb.
Height:
	About 1-2 inches in height. Spreading and forming large open or dense patches.
Growth Rate:
	Fast.
Range:
	Widespread in the eastern and central United States south to the Monroe County Keys; Bahamas.
Habitats:
	Primarily disturbed areas, including lawns, but also found in hammocks and near water bodies.
Soils:
	Wet to moist, well-drained to poorly drained sandy, limestone or organic soils, with or without humus.
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 long-term flooding by salt or brackish water.
Salt Wind Tolerance:
	Secondary line; tolerates significant salt wind without injury, but usually is somewhat protected.
Drought Tolerance:
	Moderate; generally requires moist soils, but tolerant of short periods of drought once established.
Light Requirements:
	Light shade to full sun.
Flower Color:
	Greenish.
Flower Characteristics:
	Inconspicuous.
Flowering Season:
	Spring-fall.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous capsule.
Wildlife and Ecology:
Horticultural Notes:
	Easily grown from divisions of creeping, rooted stems, but keep moist at all times.
Comments:
	Can be weedy in the garden, but covers ground and competes with less desirable plants. See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's Flower Friday page.