General Landscape Uses: Wildflower and butterfly host plant.
Description: Small perennial 1-2 feet tall with narrow leaves 3-5 inches long. Forms small clumps. White flowers appear from pink buds in groups.
Dimensions: Typically 1-2 feet in height.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Native Range: Central and southeastern United States south to Volusia, Osceola, Polk, DeSoto, and Sarasota counties.
Native Habitats: Marshes, cypress swamps, floodplain forests.
Soils: Wet to moist, seasonally inundated organic, sandy or calcareous soils, with or without humusy top layer.
Nutritional Requirements: Moderate; can grow in nutrient poor soils, but needs some organic content to thrive.
Salt Water Tolerance: Low; does not tolerate long-term flooding by salt or brackish water.
Salt Wind Tolerance: Moderate; grows near salt water, but is protected from direct salt spray by other vegetation.
Drought Tolerance: Low; requires moist to wet soils and is intolerant of long periods of drought.
Light Requirements: Part sun
Flower Color: White
Flower Characteristics: Showy.
Flowering Season: May-September.
Fruit: One inch long brown follicles.
Wildlife and Ecology: Larval host plant for monarch (Danaus plexippus), queen (Danaus gilippus) and soldier (Danaus eresimus) butterflies. Attracts native bees and other beneficial insects.
Horticultural Notes: Grown from seed, cuttings, division
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