Index / Search / Ceratophyllum demersum
§1 Plant
Ceratophyllum demersum L.
vernacular coon's tail — species · Ceratophyllaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Ceratophyllaceae Gray
- Genus
- Ceratophyllum
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b
County-level range
· 259 counties across 20 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 110 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8.6
- Root depth
- 0 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Gray-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Blue
- Fruit colour
- White
- Fire resistant
- Yes
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Summer
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 165,000
- Propagation
- seed, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 259 counties across 20 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 21 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Benton 05007
- Crittenden 05035
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Fulton 05049
- Hempstead 05057
- Independence 05063
- Izard 05065
- Jefferson 05069
- Lee 05077
- Mississippi 05093
- Newton 05101
- Ouachita 05103
- Poinsett 05111
- Pope 05115
- Prairie 05117
- St. Francis 05123
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Bay 12005
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Citrus 12017
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- Franklin 12037
- Gilchrist 12041
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Jackson 12063
- Lake 12069
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Marion 12083
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Sumter 12119
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 7 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 5 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 17 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Chautauqua 36013
- Chemung 36015
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Greene 36039
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Crawford 42039
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Juniata 42067
- Lancaster 42071
- Lebanon 42075
- Luzerne 42079
- Mercer 42085
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Snyder 42109
- Sullivan 42113
- Union 42119
- Warren 42123
- Wyoming 42131
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Bath 51017
- Caroline 51033
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Frederick 51069
- Gloucester 51073
- Grayson 51077
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- Middlesex 51119
- Montgomery 51121
- New Kent 51127
- Patrick 51141
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Prince William 51153
- Richmond 51159
- Smyth 51173
- Stafford 51179
- Surry 51181
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Washington 51191
- York 51199
West Virginia view state ↗ 7 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CEDE4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2882398 ↗Record version
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