Low specimen plant, mass plantings. Can be used as a low hedge, even sheared. Useful for beach dune stabilization.

This is a large tree best used in settings where its form can be appreciated. It is both a specimen tree and and shade tree.

Not generally grown, little information on culture has been located. Wildflower in moist casual setting.

Specimen plant. Roadsides, parking lot edges, and medians. Smaller forms can make good foundation screens.

The showy part of the flower is the white, pink or rose bracts that become petal-like. This species is listed as Threatened by the State of Florida. Please acquire from reputable nurseries. Based on the BONAP maps and the ISB map, this part of the Pinckneya range that is in the Apalachicola National Forest is contiguous with the main body of the species' range in Georgia and South Carolina.  The part of its range in the peninsula, in the Ocala National Forest area, appears to be disjunct. Specimen shrub or small tree.