General Landscape Uses:
Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wet wildflower gardens.
Availability:
Grown by enthusiasts.
Description: Small to medium herbaceous wildflower.
Dimensions: Typically 1-2 feet in height, more when in flower. About as broad as tall.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Range:
Endemic to Florida from Miami-Dade County and the Monroe County mainland north to Brevard, Osceola, Hillsborough and Pinellas counties; disjunct in Duval and Bradford counties.
Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Map of Postal Code Areas of IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Habitats: Marshes and marl prairies.
Soils: Wet to moist, seasonally inundated calcareous or 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: White.
Flower Characteristics: Showy.
Flowering Season: Spring-fall.
Fruit: Globose fleshy capsule.
Horticultural Notes: Can be grown from seed and divisions.
Comments: Luber grasshoppers eat the leaves. See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's
Flower Friday page.
