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§1 Plant
Chilopsis linearis (Cav.) Sweet
vernacular desert willow — species · Bignoniaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Bignoniaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Chilopsis
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 69 counties across 6 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- High
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -23 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 150 min.
- Precipitation
- 4–37 in/yr
- pH range
- 6.6–10
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 25 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 15 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 86,000
- 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
- Fuelwood
- Low
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 69 counties across 6 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 12 N ▾
California view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Bastrop 48021
- Bexar 48029
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Cameron 48061
- Cottle 48101
- Crockett 48105
- Culberson 48109
- Dallas 48113
- Ector 48135
- Edwards 48137
- El Paso 48141
- Garza 48169
- Hamilton 48193
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hudspeth 48229
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Loving 48301
- Lynn 48305
- McLennan 48309
- McMullen 48311
- Newton 48351
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Reeves 48389
- Robertson 48395
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Wilson 48493
- Winkler 48495
- Yoakum 48501
- Zavala 48507
Utah view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CHLI2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5415072 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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