General Landscape Uses:
Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also saline butterfly gardens along the coast.
Availability:
Grown by enthusiasts and occasionally by native plant nurseries.
Description: Small creeping herb.
Dimensions: About 6-12 inches or sometimes more in height. Spreading and forming large mats.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Range:
Coastal regions of the New World, Europe and northern Africa.
Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Map of Postal Code Areas of IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Habitats: Brackish coastal areas.
Soils: Wet, ocassionally inundated brackish or saline soils.
Nutritional Requirements: Moderate; can grow in nutrient poor soils, but needs some organic content to thrive.
Salt Water Tolerance: High; tolerates flooding by salt water.
Salt Wind Tolerance: Moderate; grows near salt water, but is protected from direct salt spray by other vegetation.
Drought Tolerance: Low; requires moist to wet soils and is intolerant of long periods of drought.
Light Requirements: Full sun.
Flower Color: Green.
Flower Characteristics: Inconspicuous.
Flowering Season: All year; peak summer-fall.
Fruit: Inconspicuous utricle.
Wildlife and Ecology: Larval host plant for eastern pygmy-blue (Brephidium isophthalma) butterflies.
Horticultural Notes: Can be grown from seed and division.
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