Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also as a groundcover in water gardens and along pond and lake edges.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
	A relatively common element of a wide variety of freshwater wetlands. Somewhat weedy and will recruit often into restoration sites.
Availability:
	Grown by several native plant nurseries. Available in Sanibel at Captiva Conservation Foundation.
Description:
	Small creeping wildflower.
Height:
	Typically 2-4 inches in height or less. Spreading and forming large patches.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate to fast.
Range:
	Southeastern United States south to the Monroe County Keys; West Indies, Mexico, Central America and northern South America. Rare in the Monroe County Keys.
Habitats:
	Freshwater and brackish marshes and wet disturbed sites.
Soils:
	Wet to moist, moderately well-drained to poorly-drained freshwater or brackish soils.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Moderate to low; it prefers soils with organic content, but will still grow reasonably well in nutrient poor soils.
Salt Water Tolerance:
	Moderate; tolerates brackish water or occasional inundation 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:
	White to pinkish-white.
Flower Characteristics:
	Showy.
Flowering Season:
	All year.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous capsule. All year.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Larval host plant for white peacock (Anartia jatrophae) butterflies. Attracts bee pollinators.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from cuttings, division and seed.
Comments:
	An excellent low groundcover in wet places, and can spread readily in some circumstances. See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's Flower Friday page.