Index / Search / Calamovilfa longifolia
§1 Plant
Calamovilfa longifolia (Hook.) Scribn.
vernacular prairie sandreed — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Calamovilfa
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 124 counties across 9 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 135 min.
- Precipitation
- 12–22 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.6–8.4
- Root depth
- 20 in min.
- Fertility need
- High
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 4.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 274,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 124 counties across 9 states/territories.
Illinois view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Alcona 26001
- Allegan 26005
- Antrim 26009
- Arenac 26011
- Benzie 26019
- Berrien 26021
- Charlevoix 26029
- Cheboygan 26031
- Chippewa 26033
- Emmet 26047
- Grand Traverse 26055
- Houghton 26061
- Huron 26063
- Iosco 26069
- Kalamazoo 26077
- Leelanau 26089
- Mackinac 26097
- Manistee 26101
- Marquette 26103
- Mason 26105
- Muskegon 26121
- Newaygo 26123
- Oceana 26127
- Ottawa 26139
- Presque Isle 26141
- Schoolcraft 26153
- St. Clair 26147
- Van Buren 26159
Minnesota view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Anoka 27003
- Becker 27005
- Beltrami 27007
- Benton 27009
- Big Stone 27011
- Blue Earth 27013
- Brown 27015
- Cass 27021
- Chippewa 27023
- Clay 27027
- Crow Wing 27035
- Dakota 27037
- Douglas 27041
- Goodhue 27049
- Grant 27051
- Hennepin 27053
- Houston 27055
- Kittson 27069
- Lac qui Parle 27073
- Lincoln 27081
- Lyon 27083
- Morrison 27097
- Norman 27107
- Otter Tail 27111
- Polk 27119
- Pope 27121
- Ramsey 27123
- Rice 27131
- Scott 27139
- Sherburne 27141
- Stevens 27149
- Wabasha 27157
- Washington 27163
- Watonwan 27165
- Wright 27171
Montana view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CALO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8285613 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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