Index / Search / Ditrysinia fruticosa
§1 Plant
Ditrysinia fruticosa (W. Bartram) Govaerts & Frodin
vernacular Gulf Sebastian-bush — species · Euphorbiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Ditrysinia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 155 counties across 7 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -15 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 207 min.
- Precipitation
- 33–68 in/yr
- pH range
- 4–6
- Root depth
- 24 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 12 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 18 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- Severe
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Summer
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 3,600
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Fuelwood
- Medium
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 155 counties across 7 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Autauga 01001
- Barbour 01005
- Bibb 01007
- Bullock 01011
- Butler 01013
- Chilton 01021
- Choctaw 01023
- Clarke 01025
- Coffee 01031
- Conecuh 01035
- Covington 01039
- Crenshaw 01041
- Dale 01045
- Dallas 01047
- Elmore 01051
- Escambia 01053
- Fayette 01057
- Geneva 01061
- Greene 01063
- Hale 01065
- Henry 01067
- Houston 01069
- Jackson 01071
- Macon 01087
- Marengo 01091
- Perry 01105
- Pickens 01107
- Pike 01109
- Russell 01113
- Tuscaloosa 01125
- Washington 01129
- Wilcox 01131
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Bay 12005
- Bradford 12007
- Calhoun 12013
- Clay 12019
- Columbia 12023
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Hamilton 12047
- Hernando 12053
- Holmes 12059
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lafayette 12067
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Suwannee 12121
- Taylor 12123
- Union 12125
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Atkinson 13003
- Baker 13007
- Ben Hill 13017
- Berrien 13019
- Brantley 13025
- Brooks 13027
- Bulloch 13031
- Camden 13039
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Clay 13061
- Coffee 13069
- Colquitt 13071
- Columbia 13073
- Crisp 13081
- Decatur 13087
- Echols 13101
- Grady 13131
- Henry 13151
- Houston 13153
- Jackson 13157
- Jefferson 13163
- Jenkins 13165
- Johnson 13167
- Lanier 13173
- Laurens 13175
- Long 13183
- Lowndes 13185
- McIntosh 13191
- Miller 13201
- Pierce 13229
- Quitman 13239
- Screven 13251
- Seminole 13253
- Telfair 13271
- Toombs 13279
- Wayne 13305
- Worth 13321
Louisiana view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Choctaw 28019
- Clarke 28023
- Covington 28031
- Forrest 28035
- George 28039
- Greene 28041
- Harrison 28047
- Hinds 28049
- Holmes 28051
- Jackson 28059
- Jones 28067
- Lamar 28073
- Lauderdale 28075
- Lawrence 28077
- Leake 28079
- Lowndes 28087
- Madison 28089
- Marion 28091
- Neshoba 28099
- Newton 28101
- Noxubee 28103
- Pearl River 28109
- Perry 28111
- Smith 28129
- Stone 28131
- Walthall 28147
- Washington 28151
- Wayne 28153
North Carolina view state ↗ 5 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DIFR6 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3072165 ↗Record version
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