Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Grown by one or two native plant nurseries in South Florida.
Description:
	Large herbaceous grass.
Height:
	Typically 3-6 feet in height; to 10 feet when in flower. Usually taller than broad.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Eastern United States west to Texas and south to Miami-Dade and Collier counties; Cuba.
Habitats:
	Marshes and marl prairies.
Soils:
	Wet to moist, poorly drained to moderately well-drained sandy or calcareous soils, with or without humus.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Moderate; can grow in nutrient poor soils, but needs some organic content to thrive.
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:
	Brownish inflorescence.
Flower Characteristics:
	Semi-showy inflorescence.
Flowering Season:
	Fall.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous caryopsis.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Larval host plant for clouded skipper (Lerema accius) butterflies.
Horticultural Notes:
Comments:
	See also a 2022 post on the Treasure Coast Natives blog about the genetics and pollination of Saccharum giganteum.