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§1 Plant
Sophora secundiflora (Ortega) Lag. ex DC.
vernacular mescal bean — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Sophora
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 43 counties across 2 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- High
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 7 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 200 min.
- Precipitation
- 8–24 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–9.5
- Root depth
- 24 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 15 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 15 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Dense
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- Medium
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 43 counties across 2 states/territories.
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 40 N ▾
- Bandera 48019
- Bee 48025
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Brewster 48043
- Calhoun 48057
- Cameron 48061
- Comal 48091
- Crockett 48105
- Duval 48131
- Edwards 48137
- Gillespie 48171
- Goliad 48175
- Guadalupe 48187
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jim Hogg 48247
- Jim Wells 48249
- Karnes 48255
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Kinney 48271
- Live Oak 48297
- McLennan 48309
- McMullen 48311
- Medina 48325
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Real 48385
- San Patricio 48409
- San Saba 48411
- Sutton 48435
- Terrell 48443
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Wharton 48481
- Williamson 48491
- Zapata 48505
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SOSE3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7594161 ↗Record version
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