Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also moist to wet wildflower gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts and occasionally by native plant nurseries.
Description:
	Small to medium wildflower.
Height:
	Basal rosette about 3-6 inches in height; to 3 feet when in flower. About as wide as tall except when in flower.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Southeastern United States south to Miami-Dade County and the Monroe County mainland. Not documented but presumed extirpated in Broward County. Also very rare in the northwestern peninsula and eastern Panhandle.
Habitats:
	Moist pinelands and prairies.
Soils:
	Moist to wet, seasonally inundated calcareous or sandy soils, without 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:
	Dull yellow.
Flower Characteristics:
	Semi-showy.
Flowering Season:
	Spring-summer.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous capsule.
Wildlife and Ecology:
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed.
Comments:
	See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's Flower Friday page.