General Landscape Uses:
Wildflower gardens.
Availability:
Widely available in central Florida. Available at native plant nurseries in northeast and South Florida. Available in in Boynton Beach at
Sustainscape (561-245-5305).
Description: Small herbaceous wildflower.
Dimensions: About 6-18 inches in height. Taller than broad.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Range:
Eastern and central North America west to Texas and south to the Monroe County Keys; Cuba, Mexico. In the Monroe County Keys, disjunct from Miami-Dade County to the pine rocklands of Big Pine Key.
Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Map of Postal Code Areas of IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Habitats: Wet pinelands and prairies.
Soils: Seasonally wet to moist, moderately well-drained sandy or limestone 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: Blue.
Flower Characteristics: Semi-showy.
Flowering Season: Winter-summer.
Fruit: Inconspicuous capsule.
Wildlife and Ecology: Attracts native bees and other beneficial insects.
Horticultural Notes: Can be grown by division.
Comments: See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's
Flower Friday page. See a 2019 post on the
Treasure Coast Natives blog on pollination in narrowleaf blueeyed-grass.
