Index / Search / Lycopus rubellus
§1 Plant
Lycopus rubellus Moench
vernacular taperleaf water horehound — species · Lamiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Lamiaceae Martinov
- Genus
- Lycopus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 316 counties across 18 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -23 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 165 min.
- Precipitation
- 30–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.2–7.2
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 1.6 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, tubers
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 316 counties across 18 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Baxter 05005
- Benton 05007
- Bradley 05011
- Calhoun 05013
- Carroll 05015
- Clay 05021
- Columbia 05027
- Conway 05029
- Craighead 05031
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Greene 05055
- Hempstead 05057
- Hot Spring 05059
- Howard 05061
- Jackson 05067
- Jefferson 05069
- Johnson 05071
- Lawrence 05075
- Little River 05081
- Madison 05087
- Marion 05089
- Montgomery 05097
- Nevada 05099
- Ouachita 05103
- Phillips 05107
- Pope 05115
- Pulaski 05119
- Saline 05125
- Scott 05127
- Sevier 05133
- St. Francis 05123
- Stone 05137
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- Yell 05149
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 44 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Bradford 12007
- Calhoun 12013
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Gulf 12045
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Holmes 12059
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Madison 12079
- Marion 12083
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Osceola 12097
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Sumter 12119
- Taylor 12123
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Ballard 21007
- Bath 21011
- Calloway 21035
- Carlisle 21039
- Carroll 21041
- Clark 21049
- Daviess 21059
- Edmonson 21061
- Fulton 21075
- Green 21087
- Hardin 21093
- Hart 21099
- Hickman 21105
- Jefferson 21111
- Larue 21123
- Lyon 21143
- McCracken 21145
- Mercer 21167
- Metcalfe 21169
- Montgomery 21173
- Ohio 21183
- Robertson 21201
- Russell 21207
- Trigg 21221
- Union 21225
- Woodford 21239
Louisiana view state ↗ 58 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 19 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 19 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Anson 37007
- Beaufort 37013
- Bertie 37015
- Brunswick 37019
- Chowan 37041
- Columbus 37047
- Craven 37049
- Dare 37055
- Duplin 37061
- Edgecombe 37065
- Gates 37073
- Greene 37079
- Halifax 37083
- Jones 37103
- Lenoir 37107
- Martin 37117
- New Hanover 37129
- Northampton 37131
- Orange 37135
- Pasquotank 37139
- Pender 37141
- Pitt 37147
- Tyrrell 37177
- Wilson 37195
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Amelia 51007
- Amherst 51009
- Appomattox 51011
- Bedford 51019
- Caroline 51033
- Charles City 51036
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Clarke 51043
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Frederick 51069
- Greensville 51081
- James City 51095
- Lunenburg 51111
- Middlesex 51119
- New Kent 51127
- Northampton 51131
- Prince George 51149
- Richmond 51159
- Southampton 51175
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LYRU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5341465 ↗Record version
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