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§1 Plant
Lycium carolinianum Walter
vernacular Carolina desert-thorn — species · Solanaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Solanaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Lycium
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 32 counties across 5 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 17 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 250 min.
- Precipitation
- 24–62 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–9
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 9 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Red
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Fall
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Fall
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 32 counties across 5 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LYCA2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2928830 ↗Record version
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