Latin name...Lippia nodiflora...Waterfall/ Oklahoma it's Phyla incisa...
Good nectar plant for many butterflies and bees...
such as: Tropical Checkered Skipper ...
Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak...
Crescents...
Small Skippers...
Blues...
Metalmarks...
Common larval food for: White Peacock Butterfly...
Phaon Crescent Butterfly...
Buckeye Butterfly...
Seeds for birds: Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens)...
assorted songbirds...
Ducks...
Indeterminant Blooming period...May thru Oct...Prolific seed producer...
Grows in southern half of the United States...
Has a series of small whitish flowers circling the fruiting mechanism about the size of the end joint of a lady's little finger...as the seed blooms a new ring of flowers starts again, moving up the seed rachis...
Perennial, stoloniferous, forb/ herb...
Grows on a variety of soils...sand , loam, clay, caliche, limestone...tolerates poor drainage and is salt tolerant...
Shade tolerant and also likes full sun...can tolerate drought and flooding...
Used in landscaping, 3 to 12 inches tall (prostrate)...semi-evergreen in southern climates...
I found it as an understory plant to American Bulrush (3 sq)...a wetland situation...
Seed is available...
Chuck Grimes...........WWW.Grasslanderseeder.com...
