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§1 Plant
Veratrum californicum Durand
vernacular California false hellebore — species · Liliaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Liliaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Veratrum
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 152 counties across 11 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 100 min.
- Precipitation
- 16–30 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–7.5
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 6 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- Severe
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Spring
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 365,000
- Propagation
- seed, bulb
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 152 counties across 11 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 5 N ▾
California view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Alpine 06003
- Amador 06005
- Butte 06007
- Colusa 06011
- Del Norte 06015
- El Dorado 06017
- Fresno 06019
- Glenn 06021
- Humboldt 06023
- Inyo 06027
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Lassen 06035
- Los Angeles 06037
- Mariposa 06043
- Mendocino 06045
- Modoc 06049
- Mono 06051
- Nevada 06057
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- Riverside 06065
- San Bernardino 06071
- San Diego 06073
- Shasta 06089
- Sierra 06091
- Siskiyou 06093
- Tehama 06103
- Trinity 06105
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Baker 41001
- Benton 41003
- Clackamas 41005
- Clatsop 41007
- Columbia 41009
- Crook 41013
- Curry 41015
- Douglas 41019
- Grant 41023
- Harney 41025
- Hood River 41027
- Jackson 41029
- Jefferson 41031
- Josephine 41033
- Klamath 41035
- Lake 41037
- Lane 41039
- Lincoln 41041
- Linn 41043
- Malheur 41045
- Marion 41047
- Multnomah 41051
- Polk 41053
- Umatilla 41059
- Union 41061
- Wallowa 41063
- Wasco 41065
- Washington 41067
- Wheeler 41069
- Yamhill 41071
Utah view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Washington view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Asotin 53003
- Chelan 53007
- Clark 53011
- Columbia 53013
- Grays Harbor 53027
- Jefferson 53031
- King 53033
- Kitsap 53035
- Kittitas 53037
- Klickitat 53039
- Lewis 53041
- Mason 53045
- Okanogan 53047
- Pend Oreille 53051
- Pierce 53053
- Skamania 53059
- Spokane 53063
- Thurston 53067
- Wahkiakum 53069
- Walla Walla 53071
- Whitman 53075
- Yakima 53077
Wyoming view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/VECA2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2742108 ↗Record version
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