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§1 Plant
Bothriochloa barbinodis (Lag.) Herter
vernacular cane bluestem — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Bothriochloa
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 121 counties across 10 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 2 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 180 min.
- Precipitation
- 12–20 in/yr
- pH range
- 7–8.2
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 4 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Indeterminate
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Year Round
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 754,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 121 counties across 10 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 15 N ▾
California view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 68 N ▾
- Aransas 48007
- Atascosa 48013
- Bailey 48017
- Bandera 48019
- Bee 48025
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Bosque 48035
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Brooks 48047
- Brown 48049
- Caldwell 48055
- Cameron 48061
- Coryell 48099
- Crane 48103
- Crockett 48105
- Culberson 48109
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Dickens 48125
- Dimmit 48127
- Ector 48135
- Edwards 48137
- El Paso 48141
- Erath 48143
- Frio 48163
- Galveston 48167
- Gillespie 48171
- Guadalupe 48187
- Hamilton 48193
- Hays 48209
- Hemphill 48211
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hudspeth 48229
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jim Wells 48249
- Kenedy 48261
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Kinney 48271
- Kleberg 48273
- La Salle 48283
- Lampasas 48281
- Live Oak 48297
- Llano 48299
- Mason 48319
- Maverick 48323
- McCulloch 48307
- Mills 48333
- Mitchell 48335
- Motley 48345
- Palo Pinto 48363
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Real 48385
- San Saba 48411
- Somervell 48425
- Tarrant 48439
- Terrell 48443
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Webb 48479
- Willacy 48489
- Wise 48497
- Young 48503
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BOBA3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2704120 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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