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. Taller than broad.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Range:
Georgia south to Miami-Dade and Collier counties.
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Habitats: Pinelands.
Soils: Wet to moist, seasonally inundated sandy soils, without humus.
Nutritional Requirements: Moderate; can grow in nutrient poor soils, but needs some organic content to thrive.
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.
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.
