Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wildflower and butterfly gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
	A relatively common understory herb or small vine in pine rocklands and coastal uplands.
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts.
Description:
	Small twining, low climbing vine.
Height:
	N/A; a vine with stems to 3 feet or more in length.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Eastern United States west to Texas and south to the Monroe County Keys; West Indies.
Habitats:
	Pinelands, hammocks and thickets.
Soils:
	Moist, well-drained sandy or limestone 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:
	Secondary line; tolerates significant salt wind without injury, but usually is somewhat protected.
Drought Tolerance:
	High; does not require any supplemental water once established.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun to light shade.
Flower Color:
	Bright pink fading to blue.
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), silver spotted skipper (Epargyreus clarus) and zarucco duskywing (Erynnis zarucco) butterflies.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed.
Comments:
	This is a part of a confusing group with unstable taxonomy; this species was listed as Galactia regularis in Wunderlin & Hansen (2011) and for several years on the Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants. Plants in the Florida Keys and in the pine rocklands of Miami-Dade County are the closely related Galactia parvifolia, with narrow leaflets. For any Galactia species, we recommend using plants that were originally collected from near your project location.