Index / Search / Aristida purpurea var. longiseta
§1 Plant
Aristida purpurea Nutt. var. longiseta (Steud.) Vasey
vernacular Fendler threeawn — variety · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Aristida
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 359 counties across 20 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 165 min.
- Precipitation
- 2–15 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–7.5
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 1.4 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- 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
- Early Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Spring
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 500,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Contracting Only
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 359 counties across 20 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 13 N ▾
California view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Adams 08001
- Baca 08009
- Bent 08011
- Boulder 08013
- Cheyenne 08017
- Costilla 08023
- Crowley 08025
- Denver 08031
- El Paso 08041
- Fremont 08043
- Gunnison 08051
- Kiowa 08061
- Kit Carson 08063
- Larimer 08069
- Las Animas 08071
- Lincoln 08073
- Logan 08075
- Morgan 08087
- Otero 08089
- Phillips 08095
- Prowers 08099
- Pueblo 08101
- Rio Grande 08105
- San Juan 08111
- Sedgwick 08115
- Washington 08121
- Weld 08123
- Yuma 08125
Idaho view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 60 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Cheyenne 20023
- Clark 20025
- Clay 20027
- Cloud 20029
- Comanche 20033
- Decatur 20039
- Edwards 20047
- Ellis 20051
- Ellsworth 20053
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Gove 20063
- Graham 20065
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Greeley 20071
- Hamilton 20075
- Harper 20077
- Haskell 20081
- Hodgeman 20083
- Kearny 20093
- Kingman 20095
- Kiowa 20097
- Lane 20101
- Lincoln 20105
- Logan 20109
- McPherson 20113
- Meade 20119
- Mitchell 20123
- Morton 20129
- Ness 20135
- Norton 20137
- Osborne 20141
- Ottawa 20143
- Pawnee 20145
- Phillips 20147
- Pratt 20151
- Rawlins 20153
- Reno 20155
- Rice 20159
- Riley 20161
- Rooks 20163
- Rush 20165
- Russell 20167
- Saline 20169
- Scott 20171
- Seward 20175
- Sheridan 20179
- Sherman 20181
- Smith 20183
- Stafford 20185
- Stanton 20187
- Stevens 20189
- Sumner 20191
- Thomas 20193
- Trego 20195
- Wallace 20199
- Wichita 20203
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 40 N ▾
- Adams 31001
- Antelope 31003
- Banner 31007
- Box Butte 31013
- Brown 31017
- Buffalo 31019
- Cedar 31027
- Chase 31029
- Cherry 31031
- Cheyenne 31033
- Custer 31041
- Dawes 31045
- Dawson 31047
- Deuel 31049
- Dodge 31053
- Dundy 31057
- Frontier 31063
- Furnas 31065
- Garden 31069
- Gosper 31073
- Hall 31079
- Harlan 31083
- Hitchcock 31087
- Kearney 31099
- Keith 31101
- Kimball 31105
- Lancaster 31109
- Lincoln 31111
- Morrill 31123
- Otoe 31131
- Phelps 31137
- Red Willow 31145
- Scotts Bluff 31157
- Sheridan 31161
- Sherman 31163
- Sioux 31165
- Stanton 31167
- Thomas 31171
- Valley 31175
- Webster 31181
Nevada view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Chaves 35005
- Cibola 35006
- Colfax 35007
- Curry 35009
- Dona Ana 35013
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Guadalupe 35019
- Harding 35021
- Hidalgo 35023
- Lea 35025
- Lincoln 35027
- Los Alamos 35028
- Luna 35029
- McKinley 35031
- Mora 35033
- Otero 35035
- Quay 35037
- Rio Arriba 35039
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Juan 35045
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Taos 35055
- Union 35059
- Valencia 35061
North Dakota view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 3 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Aurora 46003
- Brule 46015
- Buffalo 46017
- Corson 46031
- Custer 46033
- Dewey 46041
- Fall River 46047
- Faulk 46049
- Gregory 46053
- Haakon 46055
- Harding 46063
- Hughes 46065
- Hutchinson 46067
- Jackson 46071
- Jones 46075
- Kingsbury 46077
- Lawrence 46081
- Lincoln 46083
- Lyman 46085
- Meade 46093
- Mellette 46095
- Pennington 46103
- Perkins 46105
- Roberts 46109
- Sanborn 46111
- Stanley 46117
- Sully 46119
- Todd 46121
- Walworth 46129
Texas view state ↗ 34 N ▾
- Bailey 48017
- Bell 48027
- Briscoe 48045
- Carson 48065
- Castro 48069
- Clay 48077
- Cottle 48101
- Dallam 48111
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Dickens 48125
- Donley 48129
- Ellis 48139
- Gray 48179
- Grimes 48185
- Hall 48191
- Hardeman 48197
- Hartley 48205
- Hemphill 48211
- Hockley 48219
- Hutchinson 48233
- Lipscomb 48295
- Lubbock 48303
- Mason 48319
- Moore 48341
- Motley 48345
- Ochiltree 48357
- Oldham 48359
- Potter 48375
- Roberts 48393
- Robertson 48395
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Walker 48471
- Wheeler 48483
Utah view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Washington view state ↗ 7 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ARPUL ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/4125843 ↗Record version
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