• Family name: Iridaceae

• Host plant for: none

• General description: Small, clumping herbaceous perennial with grass-like leaves and small yellow-centered purple flowers borne on short stalks. Adaptable and easy to grow. Best in full sun with regular irrigation but will tolerate dry conditions. Maintenance-free once established. Particularly ornamental in clusters or a ground cover. Flowers attract many small butterfly species.

• Type: Herbaceous perennial
• Flower: Small purple flowers with yellow centers
• Bloom time: Spring to summer
• Soil type: Moist, well-drained, sandy or limestone soils
• Maximum height: 20 inches

• Candidate for home gardens: Ornamental, easy to grow
• Availability in nursery: Occasional, mainly in specialty and native plant nurseries
• Frenquency in the wild: Common
• Habitat: Lawns, roadside ditches, grassy fields, prairies, wet pine flatwoods pine flatwoods, ruderal

• Range in Florida

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