General Landscape Uses:
Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wet wildflower gardens.
Availability:
Available at native plant nurseries in central Florida.
Description: Small to medium shrubby wildflower. Leaves needle-like.
Dimensions: About 2-4 feet in height. About as broad as tall.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Range:
Southeastern United States south to Miami-Dade and Collier counties; Cuba and Belize.
Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Map of Postal Code Areas of IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Habitats: Wet pinelands 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: All year; peak spring-fall.
Fruit: Inconspicuous capsule.
Wildlife and Ecology: Provides some food and cover for wildlife. Attracts many bee pollinators.
Horticultural Notes: Can be grown from seed. Harvest seed when mature, but before it becomes dried out.
Comments: See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's
Flower Friday page and a 2022 post on the
Treasure Coast Natives blog about the unique mechanisms that
Hypericum fasciculatum uses to survive both flooding and drought conditions.
