Index / Search / Limnobium spongia
§1 Plant
Limnobium spongia (Bosc) Rich. ex Steud.
vernacular American spongeplant — species · Hydrocharitaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Hydrocharitaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Limnobium
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 150 counties across 18 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -24 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 180 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–5.9
- Root depth
- 6 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Stoloniferous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 0.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Green
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 465,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 150 counties across 18 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Brevard 12009
- Charlotte 12015
- Collier 12021
- DeSoto 12027
- Duval 12031
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Glades 12043
- Hamilton 12047
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Indian River 12061
- Jefferson 12065
- Lake 12069
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Madison 12079
- Marion 12083
- Osceola 12097
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- Sumter 12119
- Wakulla 12129
Georgia view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 45 N ▾
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Webster 22119
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Maryland view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 6 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LISP2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5329641 ↗Record version
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