Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wildflower and butterfly gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
	An occasional understory wildflower in sandhill, scrub and scrubby flatwoods.
Availability:
	Available at native plant nurseries in central Florida.
Description:
	Medium annual herbaceous wildflower.
Height:
	Typically 2-3 feet in height. Taller than broad.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Southeastern United States south to Broward and Lee counties, and rare south to Miami-Dade and Collier counties.
Habitats:
	Scrub, scrubby flatwoods, sandhills and pine rocklands.
Soils:
	Dry to moist, well-drained sandy 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:
	Yellow.
Flower Characteristics:
	Showy.
Flowering Season:
	Spring-summer.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous achene.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Attracts butterflies, bees, and other pollinators.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed.
Comments:
	See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's Flower Friday page.