Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wildflower and butterdly gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
	A common understory herb in a variety of open, upland ecosystems.
Availability:
	Rarely grown by native plant nurseries.
Description:
	Small herbaceous wildflower.
Height:
	Typically 3-6 inches in height. Spreading and forming small, open patches.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Southern and eastern United States west to Texas and south to the Monroe County Keys; West Indies, Mexico and Central America. In the Monroe County Keys, disjunct from Miami-Dade County to the pine rocklands of Big Pine Key.
Habitats:
	Pinelands and open, coastal uplands.
Soils:
	Moist, well-drained sandy or 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:
	High; can tolerate moderate amounts of salt wind without significant injury.
Drought Tolerance:
	High; does not require any supplemental water once established.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun.
Flower Color:
	Yellow.
Flower Characteristics:
	Semi-showy, about 5/16" long.
Flowering Season:
	All year.
Fruit:
	Brown inflated pod (legume). Seeds "rattle" when the fruit is ripe.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Larval host plant for ceraunus blue (Hemiargus ceraunus) butterflies.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed.
Comments:
	See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's Flower Friday page.