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§1 Plant
Pleuraphis mutica Buckley
vernacular tobosagrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Pleuraphis
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 80 counties across 4 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 2 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 160 min.
- Precipitation
- 5–13 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–7.8
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 2.3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- 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
- Indeterminate
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 204,000
- Propagation
- seed, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Field Collections 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 80 counties across 4 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 57 N ▾
- Andrews 48003
- Armstrong 48011
- Bandera 48019
- Bexar 48029
- Borden 48033
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Childress 48075
- Comal 48091
- Concho 48095
- Crane 48103
- Crockett 48105
- Culberson 48109
- Dallam 48111
- Dawson 48115
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Dickens 48125
- El Paso 48141
- Foard 48155
- Garza 48169
- Glasscock 48173
- Hale 48189
- Hansford 48195
- Hardeman 48197
- Hartley 48205
- Hays 48209
- Howard 48227
- Hudspeth 48229
- Irion 48235
- Jackson 48239
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jones 48253
- Kent 48263
- Knox 48275
- Loving 48301
- Lynn 48305
- Maverick 48323
- Mitchell 48335
- Nolan 48353
- Palo Pinto 48363
- Pecos 48371
- Potter 48375
- Presidio 48377
- Reagan 48383
- Reeves 48389
- Schleicher 48413
- Scurry 48415
- Sherman 48421
- Sterling 48431
- Stonewall 48433
- Sutton 48435
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Upton 48461
- Val Verde 48465
- Ward 48475
- Webb 48479
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PLMU3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2702839 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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