General Landscape Uses:
Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wet wildflower gardens.
Availability:
Grown by enthusiasts.
Description: Small to medium herbaceous wildflower.
Dimensions: Typically 1-2 feet in height, more when in flower. About as broad as tall.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Range:
Endemic to Florida from Miami-Dade County and the Monroe County mainland north to Brevard, Osceola, Hillsborough and Pinellas counties; disjunct in Duval and Bradford counties.
Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Map of suggested ZIP codes from South Florida north to southern Brevard, Osceola, Polk, and Pasco counties.
Map of ZIP codes with habitat recommendations from the Monroe County Keys north to Martin and Charlotte counties.
Habitats: Marshes and marl prairies.
Soils: Wet to moist, seasonally inundated calcareous or sandy 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.
Flowering Season: Spring-fall.
Fruit: Globose fleshy capsule.
Horticultural Notes: Can be grown from seed and divisions.
Comments: Luber grasshoppers eat the leaves. See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's
Flower Friday page.
