Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also butterfly gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
	It can be used as one of many understory herbs in pine rocklands.
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts.
Description:
	Small to medium herbaceous grass.
Height:
	About 4-6 inches tall; to 12 inches or more when in flower. Spreading and usually broader than tall.
Growth Rate:
	Fast.
Range:
	Monroe County Keys and Miami-Dade County and north along the west coast to Citrus and Sumpter counties; West Indies, Mexico and Central America.
Habitats:
	Hammocks, pinelands and coastal uplands.
Soils:
	Moist, well-drained limestone soils, with or without humusy top layer.
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:
	Low; salt wind may burn the leaves.
Drought Tolerance:
	High; does not require any supplemental water once established.
Light Requirements:
	Light shade to full sun.
Flower Color:
	Green.
Flower Characteristics:
	Inconspicuous.
Flowering Season:
	Summer-fall.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous caryopsis.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Larval host plant for southern broken-dash (Wallengrenia otho) butterflies.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed.
Comments:
	Can be a little weedy, but useful to fill in open spaces pine rocklands while other species are becoming established.