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§1 Plant
Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth
vernacular seashore dropseed — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Sporobolus
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b
County-level range
· 69 counties across 9 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 17 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 365 min.
- Precipitation
- 20–40 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8
- Root depth
- 18 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Brown
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Summer
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 2,000,000
- Propagation
- container, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 69 counties across 9 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Bay 12005
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Charlotte 12015
- Collier 12021
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gulf 12045
- Lee 12071
- Levy 12075
- Manatee 12081
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Nassau 12089
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Taylor 12123
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
Georgia view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 4 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SPVI3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2704745 ↗Record version
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