Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wildflower and butterfly gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Widely available in central Florida. Available at native plant nurseries in northeast and South Florida.
Description:
	Medium herbaceous wildflower.
Height:
	About 2-3 inches in height; to 3 feet when in flower. Taller than broad when in flower.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Widespread in eastern North America south to Miami-Dade and Collier counties. Perhaps never present or extirpated in Broward County. Not documented on barrier islands in South Florida, but possibly historically present; it is cultivated at Pan’s Garden in Palm Beach.
Habitats:
	Pinelands and prairies.
Soils:
	Moist to wet, well-drained to moderately well drained sandy or limestone 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:
	High; does not require any supplemental water once established.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun.
Flower Color:
	Rose purplish.
Flower Characteristics:
	Showy.
Flowering Season:
	Summer-fall.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous achene.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Atttracts bees, butterflies and other beneficial insect pollinators. Valuable source of insects for birds.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed.
Comments:
	See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's Flower Friday page. See a 2018 post on the Treasure Coast Natives blog on Blazing Stars and their flowers.