Current focused research on the plant at one of its strongholds shows that it can adapt to some other habitats that mimic the disturbance and canopy cover of a floodplain forest.

The permit required ten years of monitoring along a transect in a black locust dominated area near the armory construction.

At the end of the ten years it was determined that further surveys needed to be conducted elsewhere on the installation, not only because it was apparent the plant occurred elsewhere on the 7,500 acre property, but also because there was the threat of more take due to new construction in 2012.

[4] The embedded map shows the potential habitat considered viable in the 2010 consideration of where to survey to manage the construction threat in 2012.

Research since the map was developed has found extensive populations in many areas far from a floodplain but very much in a disturbance based system.

[9] Because early American medicine gleaned some of the aboriginal understandings of the power of plant alkaloids like heroin for pain and belladonna for hearing issues, it was used for things like staunching a bleeding wound, and as an anti emetic.

Chinese medicine uses plants in this genus as a pain reliever, muscle relaxant, and to slow the gastrointestinal system.