Index / Search / Cordylanthus ramosus
§1 Plant
Cordylanthus ramosus Nutt. ex Benth.
vernacular bushy bird's beak — species · Scrophulariaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Scrophulariaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Cordylanthus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 77 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 52 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 80 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–20 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–7.8
- Root depth
- 6 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 1 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
- Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 200,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- High
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 77 counties across 8 states/territories.
California view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Adams 16003
- Bannock 16005
- Bear Lake 16007
- Bingham 16011
- Blaine 16013
- Bonneville 16019
- Butte 16023
- Camas 16025
- Caribou 16029
- Cassia 16031
- Clark 16033
- Custer 16037
- Elmore 16039
- Fremont 16043
- Gooding 16047
- Jefferson 16051
- Lemhi 16059
- Lincoln 16063
- Oneida 16071
- Owyhee 16073
- Power 16077
- Teton 16081
- Twin Falls 16083
- Washington 16087
Montana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 10 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CORA5 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5414575 ↗Record version
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