Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also a creeping groundcover in moist, shady areas. Identified by Fair Child Tropical Botanic Garden as a native that does especially well in shade in this brochure.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Grown by one or two native plant nurseries in South Florida.
Description:
	Small creeping herbaceous grass.
Height:
	About 2-6 inches in height. Spreading and forming large, open or dense patches.
Growth Rate:
	Fast to moderate.
Range:
	Southeastern United States west to Texas and south to Miami-Dade County and the Monroe County mainland; West Indies, Mexico, Central America, South America and the Old World.
Habitats:
	Moist forests.
Soils:
	Moist to wet, well-drained to moderately well-drained sandy, limestone, or organic soils, with humusy top layer.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Moderate; can grow in nutrient poor soils, but needs some organic content to thrive.
Salt Water Tolerance:
	Low; does not tolerate flooding by salt or brackish water.
Salt Wind Tolerance:
	Moderate; grows near salt water, but is protected from direct salt spray by other vegetation.
Drought Tolerance:
	Moderate; generally requires moist soils, but tolerant of short periods of drought once established.
Light Requirements:
	Light shade to moderate shade.
Flower Color:
	White.
Flower Characteristics:
	Inconspicuous.
Flowering Season:
	All year.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous caryopsis.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Larval host for Carolina satyr (Hermeuptychia sosbius) butterflies.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from division and seed.
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