Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wet to moist wildflower gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Available at native plant nurseries in central Florida.
Description:
	Medium herbaceous wildflower.
Height:
	Typically 2-3 feet in height. Spreads and forms patches much broader than tall.
Growth Rate:
	Fast.
Range:
	Eastern and central North America west to Arizona and south to Miami-Dade County and the Monroe County mainland; the West Indies (Cuba), Mexico and Central America (Honduras).
Habitats:
	Moist to wet hammocks, marshes and swamps.
Soils:
	Seasonally wet to moist, moderately well-drained sandy or calcareous soils, with or without organic or humusy top layer.
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:
	Moderate; generally requires moist soils, but tolerant of short periods of drought once established.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun.
Flower Color:
	Pink.
Flower Characteristics:
	Showy.
Flowering Season:
	Spring-fall.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous nutlet.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Valuable source of seeds for birds.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed and division.
Comments:
	Can be aggressive, spreading from underground stems (rhizomes). See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's Flower Friday page.