Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also an accent shrub.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Grown by one or two native plant nurseries in Florida.
Description:
	Small shrub. Leaves small, shiny.
Height:
	About 1-2 feet tall. Spreading from underground stems (rhizomes) and forming clumps as broad as tall.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Eastern North America west to Louisiana and south to Palm Beach and Collier counties; very rare south of Martin and Lee counties.
Habitats:
	Pinelands and scrubby flatwoods.
Soils:
	Moist to dry, 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:
	High; does not require any supplemental water once established.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun.
Flower Color:
	White to pinkish.
Flower Characteristics:
	Semi-showy.
Flowering Season:
	Spring.
Fruit:
	Shiny black drupe.
Wildlife and Ecology:
Horticultural Notes:
Comments:
	See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's Flower Friday page.