Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wet wildflower gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts.
Description:
	Small to medium shrubby wildflower. Leaves needle-like.
Height:
	About 2-4 feet in height. About as broad as tall.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Southeastern United States south to Miami-Dade and Collier counties; Cuba and Belize.
Habitats:
	Wet pinelands and swamp margins.
Soils:
	Wet to moist, seasonally inundated sandy soils, without humus.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Low; it grows 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:
	Moderate to low; requires moist to wet soils, but tolerant of short periods of drought once established.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun.
Flower Color:
	Yellow.
Flower Characteristics:
	Semi-showy.
Flowering Season:
	All year; peak spring-fall.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous capsule.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Provides some food and cover for wildlife. Attracts many bee pollinators.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed. Harvest seed when mature, but before it becomes dried out.
Comments:
	See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's Flower Friday page and a 2022 post on the Treasure Coast Natives blog about the unique mechanisms that Hypericum fasciculatum uses to survive both flooding and drought conditions.