Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wildflower and butterfly gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts.
Description:
	Small herbaceous wildflower.
Height:
	About 2-3 inches in height. Mostly creeping along the ground and forming open mats; sometimes weakly twining up other vegetation.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Eastern and southeastern United States south to Miami-Dade and Collier counties.
Habitats:
	Pinelands and scrub.
Soils:
	Moist to dry, well-drained sandy soils, without humus.
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:
	Low; salt wind may burn the leaves.
Drought Tolerance:
	High; does not require any supplemental water once established.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun.
Flower Color:
	Pink.
Flower Characteristics:
	Semi-showy.
Flowering Season:
	All year.
Fruit:
	Small brown pod (legume).
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Larval host plant for cassius blue (Leptotes cassius), ceraunus blue (Hemiargus ceraunus), gray hairstreak (Strymon melinus), long-tailed skipper (Urbanus proteus), northern cloudywing (Thorybes pylades), silver spotted skipper (Epargyreus clarus) and zarucco dusky wing (Erynnis zarucco) butterflies.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed.
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