General Landscape Uses:
Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations.
Availability:
Grown by enthusiasts.
Description: Small to medium herb-like shrub.
Dimensions: Typically 2-4 feet in height. Usually taller than broad.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Range:
Southeastern United States south to Miami-Dade County and the Monroe County mainland.
Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Map of Postal Code Areas of IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Habitats: Marshes, swamps and wet pinelands.
Soils: Moist to seasonally inundated, well-drained limestone or calcareous soils, without humus.
Nutritional Requirements: Moderate to low; it prefers soils with organic content, but will still grow reasonably well 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: Yellowish-green.
Flower Characteristics: Inconspicuous.
Flowering Season: All year.
Fruit: Inconspicuous capsule.
Comments: See also a 2022 post on the
Treasure Coast Natives blog about the unique mechanisms that
Stillingia aquatica uses to survive both flooding and drought conditions.
