General Landscape Uses:
Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wildflower and butterfly gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes: An occasional understory wildflower in sandhill, scrub and scrubby flatwoods.
Availability:
Available at native plant nurseries in central Florida.
Description: Medium annual herbaceous wildflower.
Dimensions: Typically 2-3 feet in height. Taller than broad.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Range:
Southeastern United States south to Broward and Lee counties, and rare south to Miami-Dade and Collier counties.
Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Map of Postal Code Areas of IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Habitats: Scrub, scrubby flatwoods, sandhills and pine rocklands.
Soils: Dry to moist, well-drained 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: Yellow.
Flower Characteristics: Showy.
Flowering Season: Spring-summer.
Fruit: Inconspicuous achene.
Wildlife and Ecology: Attracts butterflies, bees, and other pollinators.
Horticultural Notes: Can be grown from seed.
Comments: See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's
Flower Friday page.
