General Landscape Uses:
Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations.
Availability:
Grown by enthusiasts.
Description: Small creeping perennial herb.
Dimensions: Typically 1-3 inches in height. Spreading and forming small mats much broader than tall.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Range:
Georgia and Florida south to Broward and Collier counties. Perhaps extirpated in Broward County.
Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Habitats: Pinelands, marshes and swamps.
Soils: Wet to moist, moderately well-drained to poorly drained organic or sandy soils, with or without humusy top layer.
Nutritional Requirements: Moderate to low; it prefers soils with organic content, but will still grow reasonably well 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 to light shade.
Flower Color: Blue violet, mottled.
Flower Characteristics: Semi-showy.
Flowering Season: All year.
Fruit: Inconspicuous capsule.
Comments: See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's
Flower Friday page.
