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§1 Plant
Schoenoplectus californicus (C.A. Mey.) Palla
vernacular California bulrush — species · Cyperaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Cyperaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Schoenoplectus
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 83 counties across 10 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 17 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 200 min.
- Precipitation
- 40–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–9
- Root depth
- 14 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 6.6 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Yellow-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Brown
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- 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
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 83 counties across 10 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 34 N ▾
- Aransas 48007
- Bell 48027
- Brazos 48041
- Brown 48049
- Cameron 48061
- Chambers 48071
- Coleman 48083
- Dallas 48113
- El Paso 48141
- Erath 48143
- Galveston 48167
- Goliad 48175
- Gonzales 48177
- Grayson 48181
- Harris 48201
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hudspeth 48229
- Jackson 48239
- Jefferson 48245
- La Salle 48283
- Liberty 48291
- Madison 48313
- McLennan 48309
- Montgomery 48339
- Parker 48367
- Presidio 48377
- Robertson 48395
- Stephens 48429
- Tarrant 48439
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Val Verde 48465
- Webb 48479
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SCCA11 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2711108 ↗Record version
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