Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also moist to wet wildflower gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts and occasionally by native plant nurseries.
Description:
	Small to medium herbaceous wildflower.
Height:
	About 6-12 inches in height; to 2 feet when in flower. Spreading from underground stems (rhizomes) and forming small open patches.
Growth Rate:
	Fast.
Range:
	Southeastern United States west to Texas and south to the Monroe County Keys; Bermuda, West Indies, Mexico and Central America. In the Monroe County Keys, apparently disjunct from Miami-Dade County to Bahia Honda, Big Pine Key and nearby islands.
Habitats:
	Pinelands, marshes and wet prairies.
Soils:
	Wet to moist, periodically inundated freshwater or brackish soils.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Moderate; can grow in nutrient poor soils, but needs some organic content to thrive.
Salt Water Tolerance:
	Moderate; tolerates brackish water or occasional inundation by salt water.
Salt Wind Tolerance:
	Moderate; grows near salt water, but is protected from direct salt spray by other vegetation.
Drought Tolerance:
	Low; requires moist to wet soils and is intolerant of long periods of drought.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun.
Flower Color:
	White bracts with green tips.
Flower Characteristics:
	Semi-showy inflorescence.
Flowering Season:
	Spring-fall.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous achene.
Wildlife and Ecology:
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed and divisions.
Comments:
	See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's Flower Friday page. See a 2019 post on the Treasure Coast Natives blog on how this sedge changes throughout the day in order to attract insect pollinators.