General Landscape Uses:
Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations.
Availability:
Grown by enthusiasts.
Description: Medium herbaceous wildflower.
Dimensions: About 1-2 feet in height. Taller than broad.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Range:
Endemic to Florida from Miami-Dade and Collier counties north to the Florida Panhandle.
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Habitats: Pinelands, prairies and marshes.
Soils: Wet to moist, seasonally inundated sandy or calcareous 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: Whitish or pinkish; the inflorescence appearing greenish.
Flower Characteristics: Semi-showy inflorescence.
Flowering Season: Summer-fall.
Fruit: Inconspicuous achene.
Horticultural Notes: Can be grown from seed.
Comments: The leaves are held out parallel to each other, thus the part of the common name "semaphore."
