Index / Search / Cladrastis kentukea
§1 Plant
Cladrastis kentukea (Dum. Cours.) Rudd
vernacular Kentucky yellowwood — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Cladrastis
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 132 counties across 15 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -32 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 180 min.
- Precipitation
- 36–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.8–7.5
- Root depth
- 24 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 40 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 25 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 12,000
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- Yes
- Fuelwood
- Low
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 132 counties across 15 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Baxter 05005
- Benton 05007
- Boone 05009
- Carroll 05015
- Cleburne 05023
- Conway 05029
- Crawford 05033
- Dallas 05039
- Franklin 05047
- Hot Spring 05059
- Independence 05063
- Johnson 05071
- Logan 05083
- Madison 05087
- Marion 05089
- Newton 05101
- Polk 05113
- Pope 05115
- Pulaski 05119
- Stone 05137
- Van Buren 05141
- Washington 05143
Georgia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 7 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 3 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 34 N ▾
- Anderson 47001
- Bledsoe 47007
- Blount 47009
- Cannon 47015
- Cheatham 47021
- Claiborne 47025
- Cocke 47029
- Davidson 47037
- DeKalb 47041
- Dyer 47045
- Fentress 47049
- Franklin 47051
- Grundy 47061
- Haywood 47075
- Jackson 47087
- Jefferson 47089
- Knox 47093
- Lauderdale 47097
- Madison 47113
- Marion 47115
- Monroe 47123
- Montgomery 47125
- Obion 47131
- Overton 47133
- Polk 47139
- Putnam 47141
- Rutherford 47149
- Sevier 47155
- Shelby 47157
- Smith 47159
- Van Buren 47175
- Warren 47177
- White 47185
- Williamson 47187
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CLKE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2945513 ↗Record version
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