Index / Search / Sapindus saponaria var. drummondii
§1 Plant
Sapindus saponaria L. var. drummondii (Hook. & Arn.) L.D. Benson
vernacular western soapberry — variety · Sapindaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Sapindaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Sapindus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 217 counties across 9 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -13 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 150 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–15 in/yr
- pH range
- 7–8.5
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 20 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 20 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Yellow
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- Moderate
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 1,700
- 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 217 counties across 9 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Chase 20017
- Chautauqua 20019
- Clark 20025
- Comanche 20033
- Cowley 20035
- Dickinson 20041
- Elk 20049
- Ellis 20051
- Ford 20057
- Geary 20061
- Hodgeman 20083
- Kiowa 20097
- Lincoln 20105
- Lyon 20111
- Meade 20119
- Montgomery 20125
- Morton 20129
- Osage 20139
- Pratt 20151
- Riley 20161
- Saline 20169
- Stevens 20189
- Sumner 20191
- Wilson 20205
Louisiana view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Lafayette 22055
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Richland 22083
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Webster 22119
- Winn 22127
Missouri view state ↗ 13 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 33 N ▾
- Blaine 40011
- Bryan 40013
- Caddo 40015
- Canadian 40017
- Cimarron 40025
- Cleveland 40027
- Comanche 40031
- Cotton 40033
- Custer 40039
- Delaware 40041
- Dewey 40043
- Garfield 40047
- Grady 40051
- Greer 40055
- Kingfisher 40073
- Kiowa 40075
- Logan 40083
- Love 40085
- Marshall 40095
- Mayes 40097
- McCurtain 40089
- Murray 40099
- Muskogee 40101
- Noble 40103
- Oklahoma 40109
- Osage 40113
- Pottawatomie 40125
- Stephens 40137
- Tulsa 40143
- Washington 40147
- Washita 40149
- Woods 40151
- Woodward 40153
Texas view state ↗ 73 N ▾
- Bandera 48019
- Bastrop 48021
- Bosque 48035
- Brazoria 48039
- Brewster 48043
- Brown 48049
- Burleson 48051
- Callahan 48059
- Cameron 48061
- Childress 48075
- Clay 48077
- Coleman 48083
- Collingsworth 48087
- Comal 48091
- Cottle 48101
- Crane 48103
- Culberson 48109
- Dallas 48113
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Denton 48121
- Dickens 48125
- Donley 48129
- Edwards 48137
- Ellis 48139
- Fannin 48147
- Fort Bend 48157
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Gonzales 48177
- Gray 48179
- Grayson 48181
- Hall 48191
- Harris 48201
- Hemphill 48211
- Hidalgo 48215
- Howard 48227
- Hunt 48231
- Hutchinson 48233
- Irion 48235
- Jackson 48239
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Karnes 48255
- Kerr 48265
- King 48269
- Lamb 48279
- Live Oak 48297
- Llano 48299
- Lubbock 48303
- Madison 48313
- Marion 48315
- McLennan 48309
- Milam 48331
- Mills 48333
- Motley 48345
- Newton 48351
- Oldham 48359
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Roberts 48393
- Robertson 48395
- Runnels 48399
- San Saba 48411
- Shackelford 48417
- Sutton 48435
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Val Verde 48465
- Waller 48473
- Wheeler 48483
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SASAD ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5576859 ↗Record version
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