Shade tree. Screen along wetland edges. Street tree for use in parking lots and median strips. Many acres have been planted to attract bees for honey production.

Difficult to transplant. Clonal. May be used as a hedge and takes to pruning.

Specimen tree. Valued for its foliage which is shiny green on top and silky brown beneath.

Bloom period can be prolonged by removing flowers as they wither. It does not compete well with aggressive plants. Wildflower garden. Blooms best in light shade. Use in a bog, pond or water garden.

Night blooming, fragrant.

Foliage has a strong minty smell. Dry wildflower garden.

The short lived bloom opens before sunrise and is most beautiful from just before dawn till about mid-morning when it fully opens. By night fall it will have wilted.

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

Used as a foundation or hedge plant. Large shrub to small tree. Can also be used as a specimen 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.