General Landscape Uses:
Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wet wildflower gardens.
Availability:
Rarely grown by native plant nurseries.
Description: Medium herbaceous wildflower.
Dimensions: About 2-3 feet in height. Taller than broad.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Range:
Southeastern United States west to Texas and Oklahoma and south to Miami-Dade and Collier counties. Presumed locally extinct in the wild in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, where last collected in 1949 and 1961 respectively.
Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Map of Postal Code Areas of IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Habitats: Marshes and wet pinelands.
Soils: Wet to moist, moderately well-drained 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 bracts.
Flower Characteristics: Showy.
Flowering Season: Spring-summer.
Fruit: Inconspicuous achene.
Horticultural Notes: Can be grown from seed and divisions.
