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§1 Plant
Iva frutescens L.
vernacular Jesuit's bark — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Iva
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 124 counties across 15 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- Medium
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 2 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 200 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–65 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–5.7
- Root depth
- 16 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 9 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 9 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- White
- 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
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 800,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 124 counties across 15 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Bay 12005
- Brevard 12009
- Citrus 12017
- Collier 12021
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Hernando 12053
- Indian River 12061
- Lee 12071
- Levy 12075
- Manatee 12081
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- St. Johns 12109
- Taylor 12123
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
Georgia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 9 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 5 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Essex 51057
- Gloucester 51073
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- King William 51101
- Lancaster 51103
- Mathews 51115
- Middlesex 51119
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Richmond 51159
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Westmoreland 51193
- York 51199
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/IVFR ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5402625 ↗Record version
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