[3] The plant grows in sandhills, pine barrens, and dry, sandy woods.

[4] Dr. Robert W. Poole and Dr. Patricia Gentili describe the hairy puccoon as follows:[5] Flowers large (up to 1 inch in diameter) yellow-orange with 5 petals and basal parts of petals fused into a long corolla tube.

Flowers arranged in a flat-topped cluster or weakly curled, short sprays.

Leaves broadest in the middle, tapering at either end, and outer margin smooth.

To cultivate Lithospermum caroliniense a warm sunny position in a moderately fertile well-drained lime-free sandy soil is needed.