● in the shrub land near the entrance to the visitors center
● in the pollinator garden
● in the native shrub next to the maintenance yard
● on the banks of the ponds near the educational kiosk at Kanuimanu ponds
● Indigenous in North America, South America and the Pacific
● Seeds possibly carried to the islands by migrating birds from a North American wetland
● First plant to sprout in wetlands at the beginning of the rainy season
● Plant dies during the dry season and during the rainy season