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§1 Plant
Hippuris vulgaris L.
vernacular common mare's-tail — species · Hippuridaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Hippuridaceae Vest
- Genus
- Hippuris
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- GL Greenland Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b
County-level range
· 180 counties across 19 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 14–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.8–7
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 2.8 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- Yes
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 600,000
- Propagation
- seed, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 180 counties across 19 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Aleutians East 02013
- Aleutians West 02016
- Anchorage 02020
- Bethel 02050
- Chugach 02063
- Copper River 02066
- Denali 02068
- Dillingham 02070
- Fairbanks North Star 02090
- Haines 02100
- Juneau 02110
- Kenai Peninsula 02122
- Ketchikan Gateway 02130
- Kodiak Island 02150
- Lake and Peninsula 02164
- Matanuska-Susitna 02170
- Nome 02180
- North Slope 02185
- Northwest Arctic 02188
- Sitka 02220
- Southeast Fairbanks 02240
- Yakutat 02282
- Yukon-Koyukuk 02290
Arizona view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Alger 26003
- Alpena 26007
- Antrim 26009
- Baraga 26013
- Benzie 26019
- Charlevoix 26029
- Cheboygan 26031
- Chippewa 26033
- Delta 26041
- Dickinson 26043
- Emmet 26047
- Grand Traverse 26055
- Houghton 26061
- Kalamazoo 26077
- Kalkaska 26079
- Keweenaw 26083
- Leelanau 26089
- Mackinac 26097
- Marquette 26103
- Menominee 26109
- Montmorency 26119
- Ogemaw 26129
- Ontonagon 26131
- Otsego 26137
- Presque Isle 26141
- Schoolcraft 26153
Minnesota view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Beltrami 27007
- Cass 27021
- Chippewa 27023
- Clay 27027
- Clearwater 27029
- Cook 27031
- Douglas 27041
- Goodhue 27049
- Hubbard 27057
- Itasca 27061
- Jackson 27063
- Kandiyohi 27067
- Kittson 27069
- Lake 27075
- Lake of the Woods 27077
- Mahnomen 27087
- Marshall 27089
- Morrison 27097
- Norman 27107
- Otter Tail 27111
- Pipestone 27117
- Polk 27119
- Pope 27121
- Roseau 27135
- St. Louis 27137
- Stevens 27149
- Wilkin 27167
- Wright 27171
Montana view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 9 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 21 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 4 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/HIVU2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5372503 ↗Record version
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