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§1 Plant
Phyla nodiflora (L.) Greene
vernacular turkey tangle fogfruit — species · Verbenaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Verbenaceae J. St.-Hil.
- Genus
- Phyla
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b
County-level range
· 274 counties across 16 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -18 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 110 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–40 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8.5
- Root depth
- 6 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Stoloniferous
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 0.2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fire resistant
- Yes
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Indeterminate
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 274 counties across 16 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 63 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Bay 12005
- Bradford 12007
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gilchrist 12041
- Glades 12043
- Gulf 12045
- Hamilton 12047
- Hardee 12049
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lafayette 12067
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Madison 12079
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
- Taylor 12123
- Union 12125
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Assumption 22007
- Beauregard 22011
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- Concordia 22029
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vermilion 22113
- Webster 22119
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 6 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 18 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 82 N ▾
- Aransas 48007
- Austin 48015
- Bandera 48019
- Bastrop 48021
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Bowie 48037
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Brooks 48047
- Burnet 48053
- Calhoun 48057
- Cameron 48061
- Cass 48067
- Chambers 48071
- Childress 48075
- Clay 48077
- Colorado 48089
- Comal 48091
- Cooke 48097
- Culberson 48109
- Dallas 48113
- Dimmit 48127
- Donley 48129
- Edwards 48137
- Ellis 48139
- Erath 48143
- Fayette 48149
- Frio 48163
- Galveston 48167
- Garza 48169
- Goliad 48175
- Gonzales 48177
- Grayson 48181
- Gregg 48183
- Grimes 48185
- Hardin 48199
- Harris 48201
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hunt 48231
- Jackson 48239
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jefferson 48245
- Jim Hogg 48247
- Karnes 48255
- Kendall 48259
- Kenedy 48261
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Kleberg 48273
- Lavaca 48285
- Llano 48299
- Madison 48313
- Marion 48315
- Matagorda 48321
- McCulloch 48307
- McLennan 48309
- Milam 48331
- Mitchell 48335
- Navarro 48349
- Nueces 48355
- Parker 48367
- Presidio 48377
- Red River 48387
- Refugio 48391
- Robertson 48395
- Runnels 48399
- San Patricio 48409
- Tarrant 48439
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Washington 48477
- Webb 48479
- Wichita 48485
- Willacy 48489
- Williamson 48491
- Zapata 48505
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PHNO2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5341112 ↗Record version
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