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§1 Plant
Dracopis amplexicaulis (Vahl) Cass.
vernacular clasping coneflower — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Dracopis
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 199 counties across 12 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 32 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–7.5
- Root depth
- 6 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 1,600,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 199 counties across 12 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 52 N ▾
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vernon 22115
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 5 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Atoka 40005
- Bryan 40013
- Carter 40019
- Cherokee 40021
- Choctaw 40023
- Cleveland 40027
- Coal 40029
- Comanche 40031
- Cotton 40033
- Custer 40039
- Grady 40051
- Hughes 40063
- Kingfisher 40073
- Kiowa 40075
- Latimer 40077
- Lincoln 40081
- Logan 40083
- Love 40085
- Marshall 40095
- Mayes 40097
- McClain 40087
- McCurtain 40089
- Murray 40099
- Muskogee 40101
- Oklahoma 40109
- Osage 40113
- Ottawa 40115
- Payne 40119
- Pontotoc 40123
- Pottawatomie 40125
- Rogers 40131
- Sequoyah 40135
- Tillman 40141
- Tulsa 40143
- Washington 40147
Texas view state ↗ 54 N ▾
- Archer 48009
- Austin 48015
- Bastrop 48021
- Bell 48027
- Blanco 48031
- Brazos 48041
- Caldwell 48055
- Callahan 48059
- Cameron 48061
- Cherokee 48073
- Childress 48075
- Collin 48085
- Cooke 48097
- Dallas 48113
- DeWitt 48123
- Ellis 48139
- Erath 48143
- Fannin 48147
- Fayette 48149
- Gillespie 48171
- Goliad 48175
- Gonzales 48177
- Grayson 48181
- Grimes 48185
- Henderson 48213
- Hunt 48231
- Jefferson 48245
- Karnes 48255
- Kaufman 48257
- Lamar 48277
- Madison 48313
- Matagorda 48321
- McLennan 48309
- Mills 48333
- Navarro 48349
- Nueces 48355
- Orange 48361
- Red River 48387
- Robertson 48395
- Sabine 48403
- San Augustine 48405
- Shackelford 48417
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Van Zandt 48467
- Victoria 48469
- Walker 48471
- Waller 48473
- Washington 48477
- Wichita 48485
- Williamson 48491
- Young 48503
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DRAM ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/4255472 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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