Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also saline butterfly gardens along the coast.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts and occasionally by native plant nurseries.
Description:
	Small creeping herb.
Height:
	About 6-12 inches or sometimes more in height. Spreading and forming large mats.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Coastal regions of the New World, Europe and northern Africa.
Habitats:
	Brackish coastal areas.
Soils:
	Wet, ocassionally inundated brackish or saline soils.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Moderate; can grow in nutrient poor soils, but needs some organic content to thrive.
Salt Water Tolerance:
	High; tolerates flooding 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:
	Green.
Flower Characteristics:
	Inconspicuous.
Flowering Season:
	All year; peak summer-fall.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous utricle.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Larval host plant for eastern pygmy-blue (Brephidium isophthalma) butterflies.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed and division.
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