Dwarf Palmetto

Use as a small specimen shrub in moist areas. Can also be used in floodplains.

Tolerant of occasional/brief inundation such as can occur in storm surges.



Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray.

Used by birds for nesting and food. A wide variety of animals eat the fruit.

Shallowly inundated floodplain forest, shallow set sinks, hydric seep slopes and immediately adjacent mesic slopes, hydric hammock, moist mesic hammock adjacent to streams.

• Interesting foliage
• Pollinated by bees.