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§1 Plant
Andropogon hallii Hack.
vernacular sand bluestem — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Andropogon
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 178 counties across 14 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–32 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.6–8.4
- Root depth
- 20 in min.
- Fertility need
- High
- Soil texture
- coarse
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 6.1 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Fall
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 96,640
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 178 counties across 14 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 41 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Cheyenne 20023
- Clark 20025
- Comanche 20033
- Edwards 20047
- Ellis 20051
- Ellsworth 20053
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Greeley 20071
- Hamilton 20075
- Harper 20077
- Harvey 20079
- Haskell 20081
- Hodgeman 20083
- Kearny 20093
- Kingman 20095
- Kiowa 20097
- Lane 20101
- Meade 20119
- Morton 20129
- Pawnee 20145
- Pratt 20151
- Rawlins 20153
- Reno 20155
- Rice 20159
- Rooks 20163
- Rush 20165
- Russell 20167
- Saline 20169
- Scott 20171
- Seward 20175
- Sheridan 20179
- Stafford 20185
- Stanton 20187
- Stevens 20189
- Wallace 20199
- Wichita 20203
Minnesota view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 33 N ▾
- Antelope 31003
- Arthur 31005
- Banner 31007
- Box Butte 31013
- Brown 31017
- Buffalo 31019
- Cherry 31031
- Cuming 31039
- Custer 31041
- Dawes 31045
- Deuel 31049
- Dodge 31053
- Dundy 31057
- Franklin 31061
- Garden 31069
- Garfield 31071
- Grant 31075
- Greeley 31077
- Hall 31079
- Holt 31089
- Hooker 31091
- Howard 31093
- Kearney 31099
- Keith 31101
- Lincoln 31111
- Loup 31115
- Morrill 31123
- Phelps 31137
- Platte 31141
- Sheridan 31161
- Sioux 31165
- Thomas 31171
- Wheeler 31183
New Mexico view state ↗ 8 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 17 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Bailey 48017
- Briscoe 48045
- Carson 48065
- Collingsworth 48087
- Dallam 48111
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Dickens 48125
- Donley 48129
- Ellis 48139
- Gray 48179
- Hall 48191
- Hansford 48195
- Hardeman 48197
- Hartley 48205
- Hemphill 48211
- Lamb 48279
- Motley 48345
- Oldham 48359
- Potter 48375
- Randall 48381
- Roberts 48393
- Wheeler 48483
- Wilbarger 48487
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ANHA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2706107 ↗Record version
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