General Landscape Uses: Wildflower and rock gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes: A common understory wildflower in prairies, wet pinelands and depression marshes. Rare in pine rocklands subjected to drainage.
Description: Medium annual herb with attractive heads of yellow flowers.
Dimensions: Typically 1-3 feet in height. Much taller than broad.
Growth Rate: Fast.
Range: Alabama and northern Florida south to the Monroe County Keys. In the Monroe County Keys, disjunct from Miami-Dade County to Big Pine Key.
Habitats: Pinelands and prairies.
Soils: Wet to moist, moderately well-drained to seasonally inundated soils.
Nutritional Requirements: Moderate; can grow in nutrient poor soils, but needs some organic content to thrive.
Salt Water Tolerance: Low; does not tolerate 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: Full sun.
Flower Color: Yellow ray flowers and yellow and brown disk flowers.
Flower Characteristics: Showy heads, 1/2-1″ wide.
Flowering Season: All year.
Fruit: Inconspicuous achene.
Wildlife and Ecology: Nectar plant for Miami blue (Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri), southern broken-dash (Wallengrenia otho) and other butterflies. Provides seeds and insects for birds.
Horticultural Notes: Can be grown from seed.
Comments: The Florida state wildflower.
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