§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Zea
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 158 counties across 25 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 32 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 90 min.
- Precipitation
- 20–50 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–7.5
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- High
- Soil texture
- medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 8 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Dark Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Yellow
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 1,134
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Protein potential
- High
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 158 counties across 25 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 19 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 28 I ▾
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bienville 22013
- Caddo 22017
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Franklin 22041
- Lincoln 22061
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- Winn 22127
Maine view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 3 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 3 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 13 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 24 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Juniata 42067
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Lycoming 42081
- Mifflin 42087
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Warren 42123
- Westmoreland 42129
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 3 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ZEMA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5290052 ↗Record version
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