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§1 Plant
Hydrolea quadrivalvis Walter
vernacular waterpod — species · Hydrophyllaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Hydrophyllaceae R. Br.
- Genus
- Hydrolea
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 72 counties across 5 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 12 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 200 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–50 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.7–8.3
- Root depth
- 14 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 1.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Blue
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Indeterminate
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 2,250,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 72 counties across 5 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Autauga 01001
- Barbour 01005
- Chilton 01021
- Choctaw 01023
- Coffee 01031
- Colbert 01033
- Crenshaw 01041
- Dale 01045
- Elmore 01051
- Escambia 01053
- Fayette 01057
- Geneva 01061
- Greene 01063
- Hale 01065
- Jackson 01071
- Lauderdale 01077
- Lee 01081
- Limestone 01083
- Lowndes 01085
- Macon 01087
- Madison 01089
- Marshall 01095
- Mobile 01097
- Montgomery 01101
- Morgan 01103
- Perry 01105
- Pickens 01107
- Russell 01113
- St. Clair 01115
- Sumter 01119
- Tuscaloosa 01125
- Wilcox 01131
Florida view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/HYQU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2928289 ↗Record version
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