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§1 Plant
Paspalum vaginatum Sw.
vernacular seashore paspalum — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Paspalum
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b
County-level range
· 49 counties across 6 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 15 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 269 min.
- Precipitation
- 40–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.1–6.7
- Root depth
- 6 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 0.1 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Yellow
- Fire resistant
- Yes
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Summer
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 413,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 49 counties across 6 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Brevard 12009
- Collier 12021
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gulf 12045
- Hendry 12051
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Lee 12071
- Manatee 12081
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
Georgia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 3 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 7 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PAVA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8100050 ↗Record version
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