Index / Search / Berlandiera lyrata
§1 Plant
Berlandiera lyrata Benth.
vernacular lyreleaf greeneyes — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Berlandiera
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 87 counties across 6 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -23 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 150 min.
- Precipitation
- 12–32 in/yr
- pH range
- 6.5–9.5
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 4 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- 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
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 250,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Contracting Only
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 87 counties across 6 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Chaves 35005
- Curry 35009
- De Baca 35011
- Dona Ana 35013
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Guadalupe 35019
- Harding 35021
- Hidalgo 35023
- Lea 35025
- Lincoln 35027
- Los Alamos 35028
- Luna 35029
- Mora 35033
- Otero 35035
- Quay 35037
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Torrance 35057
- Union 35059
- Valencia 35061
Oklahoma view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 51 N ▾
- Andrews 48003
- Bailey 48017
- Borden 48033
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Brown 48049
- Callahan 48059
- Castro 48069
- Childress 48075
- Cochran 48079
- Concho 48095
- Crockett 48105
- Crosby 48107
- Culberson 48109
- Dallam 48111
- Dawson 48115
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Denton 48121
- Fisher 48151
- Gaines 48165
- Garza 48169
- Hardeman 48197
- Hartley 48205
- Hockley 48219
- Howard 48227
- Hudspeth 48229
- Hutchinson 48233
- Irion 48235
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Lamb 48279
- Loving 48301
- Lubbock 48303
- Martin 48317
- Menard 48327
- Midland 48329
- Moore 48341
- Motley 48345
- Nolan 48353
- Oldham 48359
- Parmer 48369
- Pecos 48371
- Potter 48375
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Reeves 48389
- Sterling 48431
- Taylor 48441
- Terry 48445
- Tom Green 48451
- Wheeler 48483
- Yoakum 48501
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BELY ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3148290 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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