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§1 Plant
Desmodium incanum DC.
vernacular zarzabacoa comun — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Desmodium
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- NAV Navassa Island Native
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b
County-level range
· 50 counties across 3 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- High
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 6 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 269 min.
- Precipitation
- 39–118 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–7
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Stoloniferous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 4 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 10 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Dense
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- Low
- Toxicity
- Slight
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Indeterminate
- Seed abundance
- High
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 465,466
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, sod, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- High
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- High
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 50 counties across 3 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 45 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Brevard 12009
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Glades 12043
- Hardee 12049
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Indian River 12061
- Jefferson 12065
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Okaloosa 12091
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Sumter 12119
- Union 12125
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
Georgia view state ↗ 4 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DEIN3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2967060 ↗Record version
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