Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also butterfly gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts.
Description:
	Medium shrubby wildflower with an erect stem.
Height:
	About 4-6 feet in height. Individual stems taller than broad, but spreading from underground stems (rhizomes) and forming small patches broader than tall.
Growth Rate:
	Fast.
Range:
	Monroe, Miami-Dade and Collier counties; West Indies, Mexico and Central America. Very rare in the upper Monroe County Keys and either very rare or absent in the middle Keys.
Habitats:
	Marshes.
Soils:
	Moist to seasonally wet, well-drained limestone soils, withour 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:
	High; can tolerate moderate amounts of salt wind without significant injury.
Drought Tolerance:
	Low; requires moist to wet soils and is intolerant of long periods of drought.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun.
Flower Color:
	White with yellow anthers.
Flower Characteristics:
	Semi-showy.
Flowering Season:
	All year.
Fruit:
	Red globose berry.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Nectar plant for mangrove skipper (Phocides pigmalion) and other butterflies.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed and division.
Comments:
	It is listed as threatened by the state of Florida.