Landscape Uses:
	Accent groundcover in coastal areas.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Widely cultivated.
Description:
	Medium herbaceous grass, first clumping then spreading from rhizomes.
Height:
	Typically 2-3 feet in height; to 4 feet when in flower. Ultimately spreading and forming large, open or dense patches.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Widespread in North America south to the Monroe County Keys; West Indies, Mexico and Central America.
Habitats:
	Coastal marshes and beach dunes.
Soils:
	Wet to moist, moderately well-drained to poorly-drained brackish or saline soils, with or without organic or humusy top layer.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Low to moderate; it can grow in nutrient poor soils or soils with some organic content.
Salt Water Tolerance:
	High; tolerates flooding by salt water.
Salt Wind Tolerance:
	Frontline; grows in direct salt wind but away from constant salt spray.
Drought Tolerance:
	Moderate; generally requires moist soils, but tolerant of short periods of drought once established.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun.
Flower Color:
	Brownish inflorescence.
Flower Characteristics:
	Inconspicuous.
Flowering Season:
	Spring-fall; peak summer-fall.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous light brown caryopsis.
Wildlife and Ecology:
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from seed and division.
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