Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Because it is weedy and easily spread it is not recommended for general landscape use.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
	Although rare, it is typically weedy in disturbed sites undergoing restoration.
Availability:
	Rarely grown by enthusiasts.
Description:
	Small perennial herbaceous wildflower.
Height:
	About 1-3 feet in height, sometimes scrambling higher in other vegetation.
Growth Rate:
	Fast.
Range:
	Peninsular Florida, primarlity along the coast; Bahamas.
Habitats:
	Beach dunes and coastal strand.
Soils:
	Moist, well-drained sandy soils, without a humusy top layer.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Low; it grows in nutrient poor soils.
Salt Water Tolerance:
	Moderately low; does not tolerate long-term flooding by salt or brackish water, but tolerates short term inunation by salt water from storm surge with minimal damage.
Salt Wind Tolerance:
	Secondary line; tolerates significant salt wind without injury, but usually is somewhat protected.
Drought Tolerance:
	High; does not require any supplemental water once established.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun.
Flower Color:
	Yellow.
Flower Characteristics:
	Showy.
Flowering Season:
	All year.
Fruit:
Wildlife and Ecology:
Horticultural Notes:
Comments:
	All parts of the plant are covered with tiny sticky hooks that easily attach themselves to clothing and even bare skin.