Index / Search / Osmorhiza depauperata
§1 Plant
Osmorhiza depauperata Phil.
vernacular bluntseed sweetroot — species · Apiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Apiaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Osmorhiza
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 148 counties across 16 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 135 min.
- Precipitation
- 14–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–8
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 132,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 148 counties across 16 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Archuleta 08007
- Boulder 08013
- Conejos 08021
- Custer 08027
- Delta 08029
- Douglas 08035
- Eagle 08037
- El Paso 08041
- Garfield 08045
- Gilpin 08047
- Gunnison 08051
- Huerfano 08055
- Jackson 08057
- Las Animas 08071
- Mesa 08077
- Moffat 08081
- Montezuma 08083
- Montrose 08085
- Park 08093
- Pitkin 08097
- Rio Blanco 08103
- Routt 08107
- Saguache 08109
- San Juan 08111
- San Miguel 08113
- Summit 08117
Idaho view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 8 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Beaver 49001
- Box Elder 49003
- Carbon 49007
- Daggett 49009
- Duchesne 49013
- Garfield 49017
- Grand 49019
- Iron 49021
- Juab 49023
- Kane 49025
- Millard 49027
- Piute 49031
- Salt Lake 49035
- San Juan 49037
- Sanpete 49039
- Sevier 49041
- Summit 49043
- Tooele 49045
- Uintah 49047
- Utah 49049
- Wasatch 49051
- Washington 49053
- Wayne 49055
- Weber 49057
Vermont view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Washington view state ↗ 5 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/OSDE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3034166 ↗Record version
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