Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Rarely grown by native plant nurseries.
Description:
	Medium herbaceous wildflower.
Height:
	About 1-2 feet in height. Sprawling and forming small open patches.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Southeastern United States south to Miami-Dade and Collier counties. Possibly extirpated in Broward County and presumed extirpated in Miami-Dade County where it was collected in pinelands in the vicinity of Arch Creek by John Kunkell Small and others in 1915.
Habitats:
	Pinelands and scrubby flatwoods.
Soils:
	Moist to dry, well-drained sandy soils, without humus.
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:
	High; does not require any supplemental water once established.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun.
Flower Color:
	Greenish.
Flower Characteristics:
	Inconspicuous.
Flowering Season:
	Fall.
Fruit:
	A pair of inconspicuous carpels pendent from a supporting axis.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Attracts native bees and other beneficial insects.
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