Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wet wildflower gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts.
Description:
	Small to medium herbaceous wildflower.
Height:
	Typically 1-2 feet in height, more when in flower. About as broad as tall.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Endemic to Florida from Miami-Dade County and the Monroe County mainland north to Brevard, Osceola, Hillsborough and Pinellas counties; disjunct in Duval and Bradford counties.
Habitats:
	Marshes and marl prairies.
Soils:
	Wet to moist, seasonally inundated calcareous or 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:
	White.
Flower Characteristics:
	Showy.
Flowering Season:
	Spring-fall.
Fruit:
	Globose fleshy capsule.
Wildlife and Ecology:
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed and divisions.
Comments:
	Luber grasshoppers eat the leaves. See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's Flower Friday page.