General Landscape Uses:
Wildflower and rock gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes: It can be used as one of many understory herbs in pine rocklands.
Availability:
Grown by one or two native plant nurseries in central Florida.
Description: Small to medium herbaceous wildflower.
Dimensions: About 6-18 inches in height. About as broad as tall except when in flower.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Range:
Endemic to Florida from near the Georgia border south to Indian River and Lee counties; disjunct in Miami-Dade County. Very rare in South Florida outside of southern Miami-Dade County.
Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Habitats: Pine rocklands.
Soils: Moist, well-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: High; does not require any supplemental water once established.
Light Requirements: Full sun.
Flower Color: Yellow.
Flower Characteristics: Showy.
Flowering Season: All year.
Fruit: Inconspicuous achene.
Wildlife and Ecology: Attracts butterfly and bee pollinators.
Horticultural Notes: Can be grown from seed.
References: A Gardener's Guide to Florida's Native Plants
Comments: See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's
Flower Friday page.
