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§1 Plant
Forestiera acuminata (Michx.) Poir.
vernacular eastern swampprivet — species · Oleaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Oleaceae Hoffmanns. & Link
- Genus
- Forestiera
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 273 counties across 13 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -18 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 140 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–50 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 33 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 30 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Spring
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, 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 273 counties across 13 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 59 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Baxter 05005
- Bradley 05011
- Calhoun 05013
- Carroll 05015
- Chicot 05017
- Clark 05019
- Clay 05021
- Cleburne 05023
- Cleveland 05025
- Columbia 05027
- Conway 05029
- Craighead 05031
- Crawford 05033
- Crittenden 05035
- Cross 05037
- Dallas 05039
- Desha 05041
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Grant 05053
- Greene 05055
- Hempstead 05057
- Howard 05061
- Independence 05063
- Izard 05065
- Jackson 05067
- Jefferson 05069
- Lafayette 05073
- Lawrence 05075
- Lee 05077
- Lincoln 05079
- Little River 05081
- Lonoke 05085
- Marion 05089
- Miller 05091
- Mississippi 05093
- Monroe 05095
- Nevada 05099
- Ouachita 05103
- Phillips 05107
- Poinsett 05111
- Pope 05115
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- Randolph 05121
- Scott 05127
- Sebastian 05131
- Sevier 05133
- Sharp 05135
- St. Francis 05123
- Stone 05137
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- White 05145
- Woodruff 05147
- Yell 05149
Florida view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Adams 17001
- Alexander 17003
- Brown 17009
- Calhoun 17013
- Cass 17017
- Clinton 17027
- Crawford 17033
- Edwards 17047
- Fulton 17057
- Gallatin 17059
- Greene 17061
- Hardin 17069
- Jackson 17077
- Jersey 17083
- Johnson 17087
- Knox 17095
- Lawrence 17101
- Madison 17119
- Mason 17125
- Massac 17127
- Morgan 17137
- Perry 17145
- Pike 17149
- Pope 17151
- Pulaski 17153
- Randolph 17157
- Saline 17165
- Schuyler 17169
- Scott 17171
- St. Clair 17163
- Union 17181
- Wabash 17185
- Washington 17189
- Wayne 17191
- White 17193
- Williamson 17199
Indiana view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 47 N ▾
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberville 22047
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- 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. James 22093
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tensas 22107
- Union 22111
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Alcorn 28003
- Attala 28007
- Choctaw 28019
- Clay 28025
- Coahoma 28027
- Forrest 28035
- Greene 28041
- Grenada 28043
- Humphreys 28053
- Issaquena 28055
- Itawamba 28057
- Jackson 28059
- Jefferson 28063
- Lafayette 28071
- Leake 28079
- Lee 28081
- Leflore 28083
- Madison 28089
- Monroe 28095
- Montgomery 28097
- Pearl River 28109
- Perry 28111
- Sharkey 28125
- Sunflower 28133
- Washington 28151
- Wayne 28153
- Wilkinson 28157
- Yazoo 28163
Missouri view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Butler 29023
- Cape Girardeau 29031
- Carroll 29033
- Clay 29047
- Dunklin 29069
- Jackson 29095
- Jasper 29097
- Jefferson 29099
- Lincoln 29113
- Madison 29123
- Marion 29127
- Mississippi 29133
- New Madrid 29143
- Pemiscot 29155
- Perry 29157
- Pike 29163
- Randolph 29175
- Reynolds 29179
- Scott 29201
- St. Charles 29183
- St. Clair 29185
- St. Louis 29189
- Ste. Genevieve 29186
- Stoddard 29207
- Stone 29209
- Taney 29213
- Wayne 29223
South Carolina view state ↗ 4 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/FOAC ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3172390 ↗Record version
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