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§1 Plant
Digitaria californica (Benth.) Henr.
vernacular Arizona cottontop — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Digitaria
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 97 counties across 6 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -13 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 150 min.
- Precipitation
- 5–14 in/yr
- pH range
- 7.5–8.3
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- High
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 4 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
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 1,002,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Field Collections Only
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 97 counties across 6 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 65 N ▾
- Andrews 48003
- Archer 48009
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Brooks 48047
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Caldwell 48055
- Callahan 48059
- Cameron 48061
- Childress 48075
- Crane 48103
- Culberson 48109
- Dickens 48125
- Dimmit 48127
- Duval 48131
- Ector 48135
- Edwards 48137
- El Paso 48141
- Erath 48143
- Fayette 48149
- Frio 48163
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hudspeth 48229
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jim Hogg 48247
- Jim Wells 48249
- Karnes 48255
- Kenedy 48261
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Kinney 48271
- Kleberg 48273
- Knox 48275
- La Salle 48283
- Lampasas 48281
- Llano 48299
- Loving 48301
- Lubbock 48303
- Mason 48319
- McLennan 48309
- Mitchell 48335
- Palo Pinto 48363
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Reeves 48389
- San Saba 48411
- Scurry 48415
- Starr 48427
- Stephens 48429
- Sutton 48435
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Ward 48475
- Webb 48479
- Willacy 48489
- Zapata 48505
- Zavala 48507
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DICA8 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5289937 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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