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§1 Plant
Pyracantha coccinea M. Roem.
vernacular scarlet firethorn — species · Rosaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Rosaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Pyracantha
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 52 counties across 11 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- Medium
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 12 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 150 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.8–8
- Root depth
- 18 in min.
- Fertility need
- High
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 8 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 8 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Orange
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- None
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 175,000
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 52 counties across 11 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 29 I ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Ascension 22005
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- Evangeline 22039
- Grant 22043
- Lafayette 22055
- LaSalle 22059
- Madison 22065
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- West Carroll 22123
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 3 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PYCO2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2988188 ↗Record version
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