Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts.
Description:
	Small creeping annual herb.
Height:
	Typically 1-3 inches in height. Spreading and forming small mats much broader than tall.
Growth Rate:
	Fast.
Range:
	Widespread in North America south to Miami-Dade and Collier counties; Cuba, Central America and South America. Perhaps extirpated in Broward County.
Habitats:
	Wet pinelands.
Soils:
	Wet to moist, moderately well-drained to poorly drained organic or sandy soils, with or without humusy top layer.
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:
	White or faintly bluish white.
Flower Characteristics:
	Semi-showy.
Flowering Season:
	Summer-fall.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous capsule.
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