Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts.
Description:
	Small creeping herb.
Height:
	Typically 1-3 inches in height. Spreading and forming small patches.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Eastern and central United States west to Texas and south to Miami-Dade County and the Monroe County mainland.
Habitats:
	Swamps, marshes and wet pinelands.
Soils:
	Wet to moist, seasonally inundated organic, sandy or calcareous soils, with or without humusy top layer.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Moderate; can grow in nutrient poor soils, but needs some organic content to thrive.
Salt Water Tolerance:
	Low; does not tolerate long-term flooding by salt or brackish 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:
	Female flowers white to greenish-yellow.
Flower Characteristics:
	Semi-showy.
Flowering Season:
	All year.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous nutlet.
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