Natives For Your Neighborhood
Conservation of rare plants, animals, and ecosystems

Availability: Grown by enthusiasts. Available in Miami at Dade County FNPS.

Description: Shrub with slender, purplish branches typically 3-5 feet tall, reaching up to 9 feet in height. Compound leaves up to 7 inches long with 11-29 leaflets, each up to one inch long. Small white to pale lavender flowers in showy racemes 7 inches in length.

Dimensions: Typically 3-5 feet in height.

Range: Endemic to Miami-Dade county.

 Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.

Habitats: Pine Rocklands

Soils: Moist, well-drained limestone soils, without 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: Low; salt wind may burn the leaves.

Drought Tolerance: High; does not require any supplemental water once established.

Light Requirements: Full sun

Flower Color: White to pale lavender.

Flower Characteristics: Showy.

Flowering Season: Spring to summer.

Fruit: Small pod.

References: Wunderlin and Hansen (2011), Nelson (1996)

Comments: Very attractive bloom spike. See also Florida Natural Areas Inventory's Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Florida page (Chafin 2000).