Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts.
Description:
	Small herbaceous wildflower.
Height:
	About 1-2 inches in height; to 6 inches when in flower. Taller than broad when in flower.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Eastern United States west to Texas and Oklahoma and south to the Monroe County Keys; northern Bahamas. In the Monroe County Keys, disjunct from Miami-Dade County to the pine rocklands of Big Pine Key. Rare or absent in Miami-Dade County outside of Everglades National Park. Perhaps extirpated in Broward County where last collected near Margate in 1963.
Habitats:
	Pinelands and prairies.
Soils:
	Seasonally wet, well-drained to moderately well-drained sandy or limestone 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:
	Low; requires moist to wet soils and is intolerant of long periods of drought.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun.
Flower Color:
	Blue to violet, pink, yellow or white.
Flower Characteristics:
	Semi-showy, 3/8-1/2" wide.
Flowering Season:
	Winter-spring.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous capsule.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	This is a carnivorous species, which traps small insects on its leaves.
Horticultural Notes:
Comments:
	See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's Flower Friday page.