The youngest leaves are upright while the oldest lay nearly flat on the ground. The inflorescence is a panicle with about six branches.
Individual plants appear to usually have all male or all female flowers.
This plant is not difficult to propagate because the plants bear abundant seeds which are easily germinated. Several native plant nurseries are producing this species for sale. An isolated locality has been reported from Hernando County, north of Tampa. On the Lake Wales Ridge, it occurs in both Highlands and Polk Counties in most of the tracts that are targeted for acquisition by the State or by the Fish and Wildlife Service. It may still occur in western Orange County and in the northwest corner of Osceola County where specimens were collected in 1958 but remaining habitat is being rapidly destroyed.