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§1 Plant
Spartina spartinae (Trin.) Merr. ex Hitchc.
vernacular gulf cordgrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Spartina
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 51 counties across 5 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 17 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 250 min.
- Precipitation
- 40–50 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–7.5
- Root depth
- 18 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 6.6 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 51 counties across 5 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Aransas 48007
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brooks 48047
- Burnet 48053
- Calhoun 48057
- Cameron 48061
- Chambers 48071
- Dimmit 48127
- Galveston 48167
- Gonzales 48177
- Harris 48201
- Jackson 48239
- Jefferson 48245
- Kenedy 48261
- Kleberg 48273
- La Salle 48283
- Matagorda 48321
- Nueces 48355
- Refugio 48391
- San Patricio 48409
- Victoria 48469
- Willacy 48489
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SPSP ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/9560113 ↗Record version
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