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§1 Plant
Catalpa bignonioides Walter
vernacular southern catalpa — species · Bignoniaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Bignoniaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Catalpa
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 402 counties across 33 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -18 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 140 min.
- Precipitation
- 30–65 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–7.5
- Root depth
- 36 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 66 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 66 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Green
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 20,480
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Fuelwood
- Medium
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 402 counties across 33 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 21 N ▾
California view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Atkinson 13003
- Baker 13007
- Bartow 13015
- Bibb 13021
- Cherokee 13057
- Clarke 13059
- Clinch 13065
- Columbia 13073
- Crisp 13081
- Dade 13083
- DeKalb 13089
- Floyd 13115
- Fulton 13121
- Grady 13131
- Greene 13133
- Hall 13139
- Harris 13145
- Henry 13151
- Houston 13153
- Jefferson 13163
- Lanier 13173
- Lee 13177
- Murray 13213
- Oconee 13219
- Peach 13225
- Richmond 13245
- Screven 13251
- Tattnall 13267
- Tift 13277
- Towns 13281
- Upson 13293
Illinois view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Barren 21009
- Bracken 21023
- Butler 21031
- Calloway 21035
- Carlisle 21039
- Clark 21049
- Clinton 21053
- Cumberland 21057
- Fayette 21067
- Floyd 21071
- Hardin 21093
- Harrison 21097
- Hickman 21105
- Jefferson 21111
- Mason 21161
- McCreary 21147
- McLean 21149
- Meade 21163
- Nelson 21179
- Nicholas 21181
- Perry 21193
- Pulaski 21199
- Trigg 21221
- Warren 21227
- Whitley 21235
Louisiana view state ↗ 52 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Helena 22091
- St. James 22093
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Adams 28001
- Amite 28005
- Clarke 28023
- Copiah 28029
- DeSoto 28033
- Forrest 28035
- Greene 28041
- Kemper 28069
- Lafayette 28071
- Lawrence 28077
- Madison 28089
- Marion 28091
- Marshall 28093
- Montgomery 28097
- Panola 28107
- Perry 28111
- Pike 28113
- Simpson 28127
- Tishomingo 28141
- Washington 28151
- Wilkinson 28157
- Yazoo 28163
Missouri view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 16 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 14 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Adams 42001
- Allegheny 42003
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Bucks 42017
- Cambria 42021
- Carbon 42025
- Chester 42029
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Forest 42053
- Franklin 42055
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Schuylkill 42107
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Westmoreland 42129
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 12 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CABI8 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3172615 ↗Record version
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