Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wet to moist wildlfower and butterfly gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
Availability:
	Commonly available at native plant nurseries in central Florida.
Description:
	Medium herbaceous wildflower with wiry stems.
Height:
	About 2-3 feet in height. Usually taller than broad.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Southeastern United States west to Texas and south to Miami-Dade County and the Monroe County mainland; Bahamas and Cuba.
Habitats:
	Marshes.
Soils:
	Wet to moist, moderately well-drained to poorly 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:
	Low; requires moist to wet soils and is intolerant of long periods of drought.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun.
Flower Color:
	White.
Flower Characteristics:
	Showy inflorescence.
Flowering Season:
	Summer-fall.
Fruit:
	A pair of inconspicuous carpels pendent from a supporting axis.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Larval host plant for black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes) butterflies. Attracts bee pollinators.
Horticultural Notes:
Comments:
	See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's Flower Friday page.