Deer Tongue is a unique hard to find perennial FL native wildflower that can be an awesome addition to a pollinator garden. Stunning small pink blooms begin late summer and end around December. These flowers are important nectar sources for native butterflies. It prefers full sun and consistently moist soils that are well draining. This can be a hard soil type to replicate. We encourage people to find sandy soils in wet areas of their landscape or to plant in containers that allow drainage but are near irrigation.
 
Winter Dormant 
 
This plant is also known as Hairy Chaffhead and Hairy Trillsa. Not only are the common names confused with other plants, but even the genera Carphephorus is sometimes seperated into Litrisa and Trillsa. Deer Tongue is sometimes used as the common name for Vanillaleaf C. odoratissimus. 
 
Native to Florida and other states in the southeast
Natural range in FL includes almost the entire state minus southernmost counties
Foliage stays low to the ground but flowers can reach 3' tall
Full sun
Moist well draining soils
Can be grown in zones 8A-9B
 
 
Size: 1 gal
 
Shipping materials are recycled. Please feel free to compost our shredded paper we use for cushioning. The package and loose-fill packing may have been reused. Feel free to reuse again, use as mulch, compost, or recycle.
 
Plants are only shipped on Mondays and Tuesdays. This is to avoid plants sitting at a post office or warehouse over a weekend and reducing shipping stress on plants. Plants arrive healthier and quicker when you select faster shipping such as priority shipping. Plants ship from Florida. Keep that in mind when deciding to buy and selecting shipping options.
 
Seed packets ship any day of the week and are commonly shipped in envelopes paid by stamp. There will be no tracking information for seed packets shipped in this way. Customers will be notified when seed packets are sent. 
 
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