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§1 Plant
Tridens strictus (Nutt.) Nash
vernacular longspike tridens — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Tridens
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 264 counties across 18 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -53 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 180 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 3.5–7
- Root depth
- 4 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 4.9 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Yellow
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 2,138,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 264 counties across 18 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 42 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Baxter 05005
- Benton 05007
- Bradley 05011
- Clark 05019
- Clay 05021
- Cleburne 05023
- Cleveland 05025
- Conway 05029
- Craighead 05031
- Cross 05037
- Desha 05041
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Grant 05053
- Hempstead 05057
- Hot Spring 05059
- Jackson 05067
- Jefferson 05069
- Johnson 05071
- Lawrence 05075
- Lincoln 05079
- Logan 05083
- Miller 05091
- Monroe 05095
- Nevada 05099
- Ouachita 05103
- Poinsett 05111
- Polk 05113
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- Randolph 05121
- Scott 05127
- Sebastian 05131
- Sevier 05133
- St. Francis 05123
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- White 05145
- Woodruff 05147
Florida view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 49 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Webster 22119
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Barry 29009
- Barton 29011
- Benton 29015
- Boone 29019
- Butler 29023
- Clay 29047
- Cole 29051
- Dade 29057
- Dunklin 29069
- Howell 29091
- Jasper 29097
- Laclede 29105
- Lawrence 29109
- Mississippi 29133
- Newton 29145
- Oregon 29149
- Pike 29163
- Randolph 29175
- Shannon 29203
- Stoddard 29207
- Vernon 29217
- Wayne 29223
- Webster 29225
North Carolina view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Atoka 40005
- Bryan 40013
- Cimarron 40025
- Cleveland 40027
- Comanche 40031
- Craig 40035
- Delaware 40041
- Haskell 40061
- Hughes 40063
- Johnston 40069
- Latimer 40077
- Logan 40083
- Major 40093
- Mayes 40097
- McCurtain 40089
- Muskogee 40101
- Osage 40113
- Ottawa 40115
- Payne 40119
- Pittsburg 40121
- Pushmataha 40127
- Rogers 40131
- Sequoyah 40135
- Tulsa 40143
- Washington 40147
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 57 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Angelina 48005
- Aransas 48007
- Austin 48015
- Bastrop 48021
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brown 48049
- Burleson 48051
- Cameron 48061
- Chambers 48071
- Colorado 48089
- Cooke 48097
- Dallas 48113
- Denton 48121
- Fannin 48147
- Fayette 48149
- Freestone 48161
- Galveston 48167
- Goliad 48175
- Grayson 48181
- Gregg 48183
- Grimes 48185
- Hardin 48199
- Harris 48201
- Harrison 48203
- Hopkins 48223
- Houston 48225
- Hunt 48231
- Jackson 48239
- Jasper 48241
- Jefferson 48245
- Lamar 48277
- Lee 48287
- Leon 48289
- Liberty 48291
- Llano 48299
- Marion 48315
- McLennan 48309
- Milam 48331
- Montgomery 48339
- Morris 48343
- Nacogdoches 48347
- Newton 48351
- Panola 48365
- Polk 48373
- Refugio 48391
- Robertson 48395
- Sabine 48403
- San Jacinto 48407
- Tarrant 48439
- Trinity 48455
- Tyler 48457
- Victoria 48469
- Walker 48471
- Waller 48473
- Wharton 48481
Virginia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/TRST2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5289652 ↗Record version
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