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§1 Plant
Decodon verticillatus (L.) Elliott
vernacular swamp loosestrife — species · Lythraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Lythraceae J. St.-Hil.
- Genus
- Decodon
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 232 counties across 17 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -23 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 145 min.
- Precipitation
- 30–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.9–8.6
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Colonizing
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 8 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Red
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 232 counties across 17 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Brevard 12009
- Citrus 12017
- Columbia 12023
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Gilchrist 12041
- Hamilton 12047
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Holmes 12059
- Jefferson 12065
- Lake 12069
- Leon 12073
- Madison 12079
- Marion 12083
- Okaloosa 12091
- Pasco 12101
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Taylor 12123
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 7 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 18 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 43 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chautauqua 36013
- Columbia 36021
- Cortland 36023
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Franklin 36033
- Greene 36039
- Herkimer 36043
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Lewis 36049
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Orleans 36073
- Oswego 36075
- Otsego 36077
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- Seneca 36099
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Steuben 36101
- Suffolk 36103
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Wyoming 36121
- Yates 36123
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 34 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Augusta 51015
- Botetourt 51023
- Caroline 51033
- Charles City 51036
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Gloucester 51073
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Hanover 51085
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- Lancaster 51103
- Mathews 51115
- Middlesex 51119
- Montgomery 51121
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Prince George 51149
- Prince William 51153
- Richmond 51159
- Roanoke 51161
- Southampton 51175
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Washington 51191
- Westmoreland 51193
- York 51199
West Virginia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DEVE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5420916 ↗Record version
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