General Landscape Uses:
Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations.
Ecological Restoration Notes: A common coastal plant, but most frequent in tidal marshes.
Availability:
Rarely grown by native plant nurseries.
Description: Small creeping herb.
Dimensions: Typically 2-4 inches in height or smaller. Spreading along the ground and forming mats.
Growth Rate: Moderate to fast.
Range:
Monroe County Keys north to Volusia and Levy counties; Louisiana and Texas; West Indies, Mexico, Central America, South America and western Africa.
Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.
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Habitats: Coastal wetlands and, less frequently, coastal uplands.
Soils: Wet to moist, periodically 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: High; can tolerate moderate amounts of salt wind without significant injury.
Drought Tolerance: Low; requires moist to wet soils and is intolerant of long periods of drought.
Light Requirements: Full sun.
Flower Color: White.
Flower Characteristics: Semi-showy.
Flowering Season: All year; peak in spring.
Fruit: Inconspicuous utricle.
Horticultural Notes: Can be grown from cuttings.
