Retain if present. Can be used as part of a screen in a dry site setting.

Restoration proects and casual moist-site plantings.

Grow on a fence, trellis, or arbor. In informal settings, allow to twine around tree or shrub stems. Interesting bell-shaped flowers and whorled white sprays of fruit.

Grow on a trellis, but keep it fairly short to keep the flowers at a level where they will be enjoyed. Can be grown as a container plant.

The species is hermaphroditic (monecious), meaning flowers have both male and female reproductive structures on the same plant. This is a near-endemic meaning that it occurs mostly in Florida with a few outlying populations in Georgia and South Carolina. Moist wildflower gardens.

Foliage has a strong minty smell. Dry wildflower garden.

Specimen tree in wet settings. This is a good plant to grow in floodplains.