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§1 Plant
Verbesina encelioides (Cav.) Benth. & Hook. f. ex A. Gray
vernacular golden crownbeard — species · Asteraceae
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§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Verbesina
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Native
§2b
County-level range
· 118 counties across 19 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -23 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 175 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–20 in/yr
- pH range
- 6.4–8.5
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 239,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 118 counties across 19 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Catron 35003
- Chaves 35005
- Cibola 35006
- Colfax 35007
- Curry 35009
- Dona Ana 35013
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Guadalupe 35019
- Hidalgo 35023
- Lea 35025
- Lincoln 35027
- Los Alamos 35028
- Luna 35029
- McKinley 35031
- Mora 35033
- Otero 35035
- Rio Arriba 35039
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Juan 35045
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Taos 35055
- Torrance 35057
- Union 35059
- Valencia 35061
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 7 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/VEEN ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3147913 ↗Record version
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