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§1 Plant
Berula erecta (Huds.) Coville
vernacular cutleaf waterparsnip — species · Apiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Apiaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Berula
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 82 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 85 min.
- Precipitation
- 16–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.9–6.9
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 2.8 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- Slight
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 2,500,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 82 counties across 8 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Cheyenne 20023
- Clark 20025
- Clay 20027
- Comanche 20033
- Edwards 20047
- Ellis 20051
- Ellsworth 20053
- Finney 20055
- Graham 20065
- Harper 20077
- Kearny 20093
- Kingman 20095
- Kiowa 20097
- Logan 20109
- McPherson 20113
- Meade 20119
- Pottawatomie 20149
- Pratt 20151
- Reno 20155
- Republic 20157
- Rice 20159
- Rooks 20163
- Saline 20169
- Scott 20171
- Seward 20175
- Sheridan 20179
- Stafford 20185
- Trego 20195
- Wallace 20199
- Wichita 20203
Michigan view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BEER ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3034699 ↗Record version
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