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§1 Plant
Ratibida tagetes (James) Barnhart
vernacular green prairie coneflower — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Ratibida
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 115 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -28 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 160 min.
- Precipitation
- 9–35 in/yr
- pH range
- 7–8.5
- Root depth
- 6 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 1 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- Slight
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 1,000,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- 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 115 counties across 8 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 33 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Cheyenne 20023
- Clark 20025
- Comanche 20033
- Edwards 20047
- Ellsworth 20053
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Greeley 20071
- Hamilton 20075
- Haskell 20081
- Hodgeman 20083
- Kearny 20093
- Kiowa 20097
- Lane 20101
- Logan 20109
- Meade 20119
- Morton 20129
- Rush 20165
- Russell 20167
- Saline 20169
- Scott 20171
- Seward 20175
- Sheridan 20179
- Sherman 20181
- Stanton 20187
- Stevens 20189
- Thomas 20193
- Wallace 20199
- Wichita 20203
Nebraska view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Chaves 35005
- Cibola 35006
- Colfax 35007
- Curry 35009
- De Baca 35011
- Eddy 35015
- Guadalupe 35019
- Harding 35021
- Hidalgo 35023
- Lea 35025
- Lincoln 35027
- Los Alamos 35028
- McKinley 35031
- Mora 35033
- Quay 35037
- Rio Arriba 35039
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Socorro 35053
- Torrance 35057
- Union 35059
- Valencia 35061
Oklahoma view state ↗ 4 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 33 N ▾
- Bailey 48017
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Carson 48065
- Castro 48069
- Cochran 48079
- Crane 48103
- Crockett 48105
- Culberson 48109
- Dallam 48111
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Ector 48135
- El Paso 48141
- Floyd 48153
- Garza 48169
- Gray 48179
- Hall 48191
- Hansford 48195
- Hartley 48205
- Hudspeth 48229
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Lipscomb 48295
- Lubbock 48303
- Moore 48341
- Ochiltree 48357
- Oldham 48359
- Pecos 48371
- Potter 48375
- Randall 48381
- Reeves 48389
- Sherman 48421
- Sutton 48435
- Swisher 48437
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RATA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3087188 ↗Record version
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