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§1 Plant
Blepharoneuron tricholepis (Torr.) Nash
vernacular pine dropseed — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Blepharoneuron
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 75 counties across 5 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -23 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 145 min.
- Precipitation
- 6–18 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 1,100,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Contracting Only
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 75 counties across 5 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Archuleta 08007
- Boulder 08013
- Conejos 08021
- Custer 08027
- Delta 08029
- Dolores 08033
- Douglas 08035
- El Paso 08041
- Garfield 08045
- Gilpin 08047
- Gunnison 08051
- Huerfano 08055
- Jackson 08057
- Jefferson 08059
- Larimer 08069
- Mesa 08077
- Mineral 08079
- Montezuma 08083
- Montrose 08085
- Park 08093
- Rio Blanco 08103
- Rio Grande 08105
- Saguache 08109
- San Juan 08111
- San Miguel 08113
- Summit 08117
- Teller 08119
New Mexico view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Catron 35003
- Cibola 35006
- Colfax 35007
- Dona Ana 35013
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Hidalgo 35023
- Lincoln 35027
- Los Alamos 35028
- McKinley 35031
- Mora 35033
- Otero 35035
- Rio Arriba 35039
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Taos 35055
- Union 35059
- Valencia 35061
Texas view state ↗ 3 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BLTR ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7646010 ↗Record version
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