Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
	A rare element of drier pinelands including scrub and well-drained sandy patches in pine rocklands.
Availability:
	Available at native plant nurseries in central Florida.
Description:
	Medium shrub.
Height:
	Typically 3-4 feet in height. Usually taller than broad.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Southern Georgia south to Miami-Dade and Collier counties. Rare and scattered in South Florida. Rare in Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Martin counties; perhaps never present or extirpated in Broward County; perhaps extirpated in Collier County; apparently absent elsewhere.
Habitats:
	Moist to dry pinelands.
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:
	Pink.
Flower Characteristics:
	Showy inflorescence.
Flowering Season:
	Fall.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous achene.
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