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§1 Plant
Commelina diffusa Burm. f.
vernacular climbing dayflower — species · Commelinaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Commelinaceae Mirb.
- Genus
- Commelina
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b
County-level range
· 157 counties across 9 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 47 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 32–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.2–7.2
- Root depth
- 4 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Stoloniferous
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 1 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Yellow-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Blue
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 175,000
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, container, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 157 counties across 9 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Baxter 05005
- Bradley 05011
- Carroll 05015
- Chicot 05017
- Conway 05029
- Craighead 05031
- Crawford 05033
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Garland 05051
- Grant 05053
- Jefferson 05069
- Lee 05077
- Lincoln 05079
- Madison 05087
- Marion 05089
- Miller 05091
- Montgomery 05097
- Newton 05101
- Phillips 05107
- Polk 05113
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- Saline 05125
- St. Francis 05123
- Stone 05137
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- Yell 05149
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 43 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Bradford 12007
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Collier 12021
- DeSoto 12027
- Duval 12031
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Glades 12043
- Hardee 12049
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Indian River 12061
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Sumter 12119
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Barren 21009
- Bullitt 21029
- Calloway 21035
- Carlisle 21039
- Clark 21049
- Crittenden 21055
- Daviess 21059
- Edmonson 21061
- Estill 21065
- Fayette 21067
- Floyd 21071
- Fulton 21075
- Hardin 21093
- Harrison 21097
- Henderson 21101
- Hickman 21105
- Jefferson 21111
- Kenton 21117
- Lee 21129
- Lincoln 21137
- Lyon 21143
- Marshall 21157
- McCracken 21145
- McLean 21149
- Montgomery 21173
- Muhlenberg 21177
- Powell 21197
- Rockcastle 21203
- Rowan 21205
- Trigg 21221
- Wolfe 21237
- Woodford 21239
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Amelia 51007
- Brunswick 51025
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Charles City 51036
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Clarke 51043
- Culpeper 51047
- Greensville 51081
- Halifax 51083
- Hanover 51085
- Henrico 51087
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King William 51101
- Lee 51105
- Montgomery 51121
- Prince Edward 51147
- Prince George 51149
- Southampton 51175
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CODI5 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2764202 ↗Record version
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