Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also butterfly gardens along the coast.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
	A common element of beach dunes and coastal strand nearly throughout coastal South Florida.
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts.
Description:
	Small scrambling herb.
Height:
	Typically 3-12 inches in height or higher, climbing over the ground or other vegetation and forming large patches.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Monroe County Keys north along the coasts to Brevard (southern Merritt Island) and Manatee counties; West Indies (where possibly introduced in part), southern Mexico, Central America and South America.
Habitats:
	Coastal beaches, thickets, and hammock edges.
Soils:
	Moist, well-drained sandy soils, with or without humusy top layer.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Low; it grows in nutrient poor soils.
Salt Water Tolerance:
	Low; does not tolerate long-term flooding by salt or brackish water.
Salt Wind Tolerance:
	Frontline; grows in direct salt wind but away from constant salt spray.
Drought Tolerance:
	High; does not require any supplemental water once established.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun to light shade.
Flower Color:
	White.
Flower Characteristics:
	Inconspicuous.
Flowering Season:
	All year; peak spring-summer.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous utricle. All year.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Nectar plant for cassius blue (Leptotes cassius), great southern white (Ascia monuste), long-tailed skipper (Urbanus proteus), Miami blue (Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri), Schaus’ swallowtail (Papilio aristodemus ponceanus) and other butterflies.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from cuttings.
Comments:
	This is much more common in South Florida than seaside joyweed (A. maritima), which does not have stalked flowering clusters.