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§1 Plant
Hibiscus aculeatus Walter
vernacular comfortroot — species · Malvaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Malvaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Hibiscus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 83 counties across 6 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- High
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 15 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 260 min.
- Precipitation
- 30–160 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8.5
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Stoloniferous
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Green
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 7,600
- Propagation
- seed, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 83 counties across 6 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Calhoun 12013
- Clay 12019
- Columbia 12023
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gulf 12045
- Hamilton 12047
- Holmes 12059
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lafayette 12067
- Lake 12069
- Leon 12073
- Liberty 12077
- Madison 12079
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Suwannee 12121
- Taylor 12123
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Baker 13007
- Ben Hill 13017
- Brooks 13027
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Colquitt 13071
- Columbia 13073
- Crisp 13081
- Dooly 13093
- Houston 13153
- Irwin 13155
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jeff Davis 13161
- Jefferson 13163
- Madison 13195
- McIntosh 13191
- Toombs 13279
- Wayne 13305
- Wheeler 13309
- Wilcox 13315
- Worth 13321
Louisiana view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 13 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 3 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/HIAC ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3152544 ↗Record version
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