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§1 Plant
Damasonium californicum Torr. ex Benth.
vernacular California damsonium — species · Alismataceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Alismataceae Vent.
- Genus
- Damasonium
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 35 counties across 5 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -23 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 12–18 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.8–7.8
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 1.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- 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
- 360,000
- Propagation
- seed, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 35 counties across 5 states/territories.
California view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Amador 06005
- Butte 06007
- Colusa 06011
- Glenn 06021
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Lassen 06035
- Marin 06041
- Mendocino 06045
- Merced 06047
- Modoc 06049
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- Sacramento 06067
- San Joaquin 06077
- Shasta 06089
- Sierra 06091
- Siskiyou 06093
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Stanislaus 06099
- Sutter 06101
- Yolo 06113
Idaho view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Washington view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DACA12 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5328687 ↗Record version
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