Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also butterfly gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
	An occasional element in hammocks and swamps.
Availability:
	Rarely grown by native plant nurseries in northeast Florida.
Description:
	A twining, high climbing vine. Leaves compound.
Height:
	N/A; a climbing vine with 8 feet in length or more.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Eastern and central North America south to Miami-Dade and Collier counties.
Habitats:
	Wet to moist hammocks and floodplain forests.
Soils:
	Wet to moist, poorly-drained to moderately well-drained organic soils.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Moderate; can grow in nutrient poor soils, but needs some organic content to thrive.
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:
	Light shade to moderate shade.
Flower Color:
	Reddish-brown.
Flower Characteristics:
	Semi-showy. Fragrant.
Flowering Season:
	Summer-fall.
Fruit:
	Inconspicous pod (legume).
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Larval host plant for northern cloudywing (Thorybes pylades) and silver spotted skipper (Epargyreus clarus) butterflies. Attracts bee pollinators.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed.
Comments:
	See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's Flower Friday page.