Landscape Uses
This low shrub is a very durable, shade loving, drought resistant plant.  It is slow growing and virtually maintenance free.  After the saw palmetto is established it can survive on rainfall alone.

Fun Facts
The Miccosukee Seminole use the fruit as food.  The berries also had a range of medicinal uses. Herbalist, Mrs. M. Grieve, recommended in her book "A Modern Herbal", 1939, using the crushed dry seeds for diuretics.  Today, the berries are a source for the treatment of nonmalignant enlargement of the prostate gland.