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§1 Plant
Catalpa speciosa (Warder) Warder ex Engelm.
vernacular northern catalpa — species · Bignoniaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Bignoniaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Catalpa
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 321 counties across 21 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 90 min.
- Precipitation
- 20–80 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–7
- Root depth
- 20 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 60 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 20 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Dark Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- Low
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Fall
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 20,480
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- Yes
- Fuelwood
- High
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 321 counties across 21 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 8 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 44 N ▾
- Adams 17001
- Alexander 17003
- Boone 17007
- Cass 17017
- Champaign 17019
- Christian 17021
- Cook 17031
- Crawford 17033
- DeKalb 17037
- DuPage 17043
- Edwards 17047
- Effingham 17049
- Fulton 17057
- Gallatin 17059
- Hamilton 17065
- Hardin 17069
- Jackson 17077
- Jo Daviess 17085
- Johnson 17087
- Kane 17089
- Kendall 17093
- Knox 17095
- Lake 17097
- Lawrence 17101
- Madison 17119
- Mason 17125
- Massac 17127
- McDonough 17109
- McHenry 17111
- McLean 17113
- Menard 17129
- Pike 17149
- Pope 17151
- Pulaski 17153
- Richland 17159
- Sangamon 17167
- Scott 17171
- St. Clair 17163
- Union 17181
- Wabash 17185
- Wayne 17191
- White 17193
- Will 17197
- Williamson 17199
Indiana view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 45 N ▾
- Ballard 21007
- Bell 21013
- Boone 21015
- Bracken 21023
- Butler 21031
- Caldwell 21033
- Campbell 21037
- Carlisle 21039
- Christian 21047
- Clark 21049
- Edmonson 21061
- Estill 21065
- Fayette 21067
- Floyd 21071
- Fulton 21075
- Hardin 21093
- Harlan 21095
- Harrison 21097
- Henry 21103
- Hickman 21105
- Jefferson 21111
- Kenton 21117
- Lee 21129
- Lewis 21135
- Lyon 21143
- Madison 21151
- Mason 21161
- McLean 21149
- Meade 21163
- Montgomery 21173
- Muhlenberg 21177
- Ohio 21183
- Oldham 21185
- Perry 21193
- Pike 21195
- Powell 21197
- Rowan 21205
- Trigg 21221
- Trimble 21223
- Union 21225
- Warren 21227
- Wayne 21231
- Whitley 21235
- Wolfe 21237
- Woodford 21239
Louisiana view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 13 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 10 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Benton 47005
- Blount 47009
- Carroll 47017
- Carter 47019
- Chester 47023
- Crockett 47033
- Davidson 47037
- Decatur 47039
- Dickson 47043
- Fayette 47047
- Franklin 47051
- Gibson 47053
- Grainger 47057
- Hardeman 47069
- Hardin 47071
- Knox 47093
- Lauderdale 47097
- Madison 47113
- Marshall 47117
- Maury 47119
- Montgomery 47125
- Shelby 47157
- Stewart 47161
- Unicoi 47171
- Washington 47179
- White 47185
- Williamson 47187
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 69 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Amelia 51007
- Amherst 51009
- Appomattox 51011
- Arlington 51013
- Augusta 51015
- Bedford 51019
- Bland 51021
- Botetourt 51023
- Brunswick 51025
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Caroline 51033
- Carroll 51035
- Charles City 51036
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Craig 51045
- Dickenson 51051
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Floyd 51063
- Fluvanna 51065
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Gloucester 51073
- Goochland 51075
- Grayson 51077
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Hanover 51085
- Henrico 51087
- Henry 51089
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- Lancaster 51103
- Lee 51105
- Loudoun 51107
- Lunenburg 51111
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Middlesex 51119
- New Kent 51127
- Northampton 51131
- Nottoway 51135
- Orange 51137
- Patrick 51141
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince Edward 51147
- Prince George 51149
- Prince William 51153
- Pulaski 51155
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Russell 51167
- Shenandoah 51171
- Smyth 51173
- Southampton 51175
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Warren 51187
- Washington 51191
- Wise 51195
- Wythe 51197
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CASP8 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3172612 ↗Record version
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