Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wildflower gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts and occasionally by native plant nurseries.
Description:
	Small herbaceous wildflower.
Height:
	Basal rosette to about 1 inch in height; to 4 inches when in flower. Taller than broad when in flower.
Growth Rate:
	Fast.
Range:
	Peninsular Florida from Miami-Dade and Collier counties scattered north to Indian River, Osceola, Sumter and Citrus counties; southern Texas, Mexico, Central America and South America. Not documented on barrier islands in Florida, but possibly historically present; it grows well at Pan’s Garden in Palm Beach.
Habitats:
	Wet pinelands and marl prairies.
Soils:
	Seasonally wet to moist, moderately well-drained to 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:
	Pink.
Flower Characteristics:
	Semi-showy.
Flowering Season:
	All year.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous capsule.
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