General Landscape Uses:
Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wet wildflower gardens.
Availability:
Grown by enthusiasts.
Description: Small shrubby wildflower.
Dimensions: About 2-3 feet in height. Usually taller than broad.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Range:
Southeastern United States west to Texas and south to Miami-Dade County and the Monroe County mainland.
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Habitats: Pinelands, marshes and swamp margins.
Soils: Wet to moist, seasonally inundated 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: Moderate to low; requires moist to wet soils, but tolerant of short periods of drought once established.
Light Requirements: Full sun.
Flower Color: Yellow.
Flower Characteristics: Semi-showy.
Flowering Season: Summer.
Fruit: Inconspicuous capsule.
Wildlife and Ecology: Provides some food and cover for wildlife. Attracts bee pollinators.
Horticultural Notes: Can be grown from seed. Harvest seed when mature, but before it becomes dried out.
