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§1 Plant
Paspalum denticulatum Trin.
vernacular longtom — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Paspalum
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 44 counties across 2 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 12 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 240 min.
- Precipitation
- 30–50 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.6–6.9
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Stoloniferous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 8,254,000
- Propagation
- seed, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Contracting Only
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 44 counties across 2 states/territories.
Louisiana view state ↗ 18 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Assumption 22007
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- Iberia 22045
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- Orleans 22071
- Plaquemines 22075
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vermilion 22113
- West Baton Rouge 22121
Texas view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Aransas 48007
- Bexar 48029
- Brazoria 48039
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Calhoun 48057
- Cameron 48061
- Chambers 48071
- Colorado 48089
- Fort Bend 48157
- Galveston 48167
- Harris 48201
- Hidalgo 48215
- Jackson 48239
- Jasper 48241
- Jefferson 48245
- Karnes 48255
- Live Oak 48297
- Matagorda 48321
- Nueces 48355
- Orange 48361
- Refugio 48391
- San Patricio 48409
- Waller 48473
- Wharton 48481
- Wilson 48493
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PADE24 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/4112457 ↗Record version
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