General Landscape Uses:
Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations.
Ecological Restoration Notes: An occasional element in a variety of freshwater wetlands.
Availability:
Rarely grown by native plant nurseries.
Description: Medium herbaceous grass.
Dimensions: Typically 1-2 feet in height. Spreading by horizontal stems (stolons) and forming large patches.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Range:
Southeastern United States south to Miami-Dade and Collier counties.
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Habitats: Wet pinelands, cypress swamps, marshes and wet disturbed sites.
Soils: Wet to moist, moderately well-drained sandy soils, without humusy top layer.
Nutritional Requirements: Low; it grows in nutrient poor soils and may become aggressive with excess nutrients.
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: Brownish inflorescence.
Flower Characteristics: Inconspicuous.
Flowering Season: Fall.
Fruit: Inconspicuous caryopsis.
Wildlife and Ecology: The above ground flowers are sterile; fertile flowers are borne below ground on slender subterranean branches.
Horticultural Notes: Can be grown by division.
