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§1 Plant
Baccharis salicifolia (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers.
vernacular mule-fat — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Baccharis
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 76 counties across 7 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -3 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 160 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–18 in/yr
- pH range
- 7–8.5
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 10 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 10 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Yellow-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- White
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 5,000,000
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 76 counties across 7 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 12 N ▾
California view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Butte 06007
- Contra Costa 06013
- Fresno 06019
- Glenn 06021
- Imperial 06025
- Inyo 06027
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Los Angeles 06037
- Marin 06041
- Mendocino 06045
- Merced 06047
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- Orange 06059
- Riverside 06065
- Sacramento 06067
- San Benito 06069
- San Bernardino 06071
- San Diego 06073
- San Joaquin 06077
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Stanislaus 06099
- Sutter 06101
- Tehama 06103
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
- Ventura 06111
- Yolo 06113
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 15 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BASA4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3129643 ↗Record version
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