Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also moist to wet wildflower gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Rarely grown by native plant nurseries.
Description:
	Medium herbaceous grass with wiry stems.
Height:
	About 1-2 feet in height; 3 feet in flower. Spreading from underground stems (rhizomes) and forming large patches.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Monroe County Keys north to Palm Beach, Hendry and Charlotte counties; Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. In the Monroe County Keys, disjunct from Miami-Dade County south to the pine rocklands of Big Pine Key.
Habitats:
	Pinelands and prairies.
Soils:
	Wet to moist, moderately well-drained to poorly drained sandy or limestone soils, without humus.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Low; it grows in nutrient poor soils.
Salt Water Tolerance:
	Low; does not tolerate long-term 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:
	Green.
Flower Characteristics:
	Inconspicuous.
Flowering Season:
	Summer-fall.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous caryopsis.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Provides food for birds.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed and division.
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