Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wildflower gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts and occasionally by native plant nurseries.
Description:
	Small herbaceous wildflower.
Height:
	About 4-8 inches in height. Usually taller than broad, but sometimes falling over and forming small patches.
Growth Rate:
	Fast.
Range:
	Southern United States south to the Monroe County Keys; West Indies. In the Monroe County Keys, apparently disjunct from Miami-Dade County to the pine rocklands of Big Pine Key; also collected once on Key Largo, but perhaps introduced there.
Habitats:
	Pinelands, prairies and marshes.
Soils:
	Moist to seasonally wet, well- 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 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:
	Yellow.
Flower Characteristics:
	Showy, about 3/4" wide.
Flowering Season:
	All year; peak spring-fall.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous, globose 3-valved capsule containing light brown to gray pitted seeds.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Larval host for Gulf fritillary butterflies. For an excellent article on uses by Gulf fritillary butterflies and other insects see this article by Rufino Osorio in The Palmetto.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed.
Comments:
	See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's Flower Friday page.