Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wildflower and butterfly gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Native plant nurseries in central and northern Florida.
Description:
	Small to medium herbaceous wildflower.
Height:
	About 6-24 inches in height. About as broad as tall.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Georgia and Florida south to Miami-Dade and Collier counties; northern Bahamas. Not documented on barrier islands in South Florida, but possibly historically present; it is cultivated at Pan’s Garden in Palm Beach.
Habitats:
	Pinelands.
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:
	Light purplish.
Flower Characteristics:
	Showy.
Flowering Season:
	All year.
Fruit:
	An inconspicuous aggregate of nutlets.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Nectar plant for butterflies.
Horticultural Notes:
Comments:
	See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's Flower Friday page.