Index / Search / Ammannia coccinea
§1 Plant
Ammannia coccinea Rottb.
vernacular valley redstem — species · Lythraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Lythraceae J. St.-Hil.
- Genus
- Ammannia
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b
County-level range
· 152 counties across 13 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 16–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 4–5.9
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 1.6 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Indeterminate
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 600,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 152 counties across 13 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 44 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Baxter 05005
- Benton 05007
- Clark 05019
- Clay 05021
- Conway 05029
- Craighead 05031
- Crittenden 05035
- Cross 05037
- Desha 05041
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Garland 05051
- Grant 05053
- Hot Spring 05059
- Howard 05061
- Independence 05063
- Izard 05065
- Jefferson 05069
- Lafayette 05073
- Lawrence 05075
- Lee 05077
- Lincoln 05079
- Lonoke 05085
- Marion 05089
- Miller 05091
- Mississippi 05093
- Montgomery 05097
- Perry 05105
- Phillips 05107
- Poinsett 05111
- Polk 05113
- Pope 05115
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- Randolph 05121
- Saline 05125
- St. Francis 05123
- Stone 05137
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- Woodruff 05147
- Yell 05149
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Adair 21001
- Allen 21003
- Bullitt 21029
- Calloway 21035
- Campbell 21037
- Christian 21047
- Crittenden 21055
- Fayette 21067
- Franklin 21073
- Fulton 21075
- Hardin 21093
- Harrison 21097
- Henderson 21101
- Hickman 21105
- Hopkins 21107
- Jefferson 21111
- Lincoln 21137
- Madison 21151
- Marshall 21157
- McCracken 21145
- McCreary 21147
- Montgomery 21173
- Muhlenberg 21177
- Rowan 21205
- Trigg 21221
- Union 21225
- Warren 21227
Maryland view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 13 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 4 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/AMCO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3188711 ↗Record version
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