Index / Search / Elaeagnus angustifolia
§1 Plant
Elaeagnus angustifolia L.
vernacular Russian olive — species · Elaeagnaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Elaeagnaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Elaeagnus
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 380 counties across 35 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- High
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 100 min.
- Precipitation
- 12–40 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–9.5
- Root depth
- 20 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 35 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 35 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- White-Gray
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Yellow
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- High
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 5,160
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 380 counties across 35 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 3 I ▾
California view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 29 I ▾
- Ada 16001
- Bannock 16005
- Bear Lake 16007
- Bingham 16011
- Boise 16015
- Bonner 16017
- Butte 16023
- Canyon 16027
- Cassia 16031
- Custer 16037
- Elmore 16039
- Fremont 16043
- Gem 16045
- Gooding 16047
- Idaho 16049
- Jefferson 16051
- Kootenai 16055
- Latah 16057
- Lincoln 16063
- Minidoka 16067
- Nez Perce 16069
- Oneida 16071
- Owyhee 16073
- Payette 16075
- Power 16077
- Teton 16081
- Twin Falls 16083
- Valley 16085
- Washington 16087
Illinois view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 41 I ▾
- Barton 20009
- Brown 20013
- Butler 20015
- Chase 20017
- Cheyenne 20023
- Cloud 20029
- Ellis 20051
- Ellsworth 20053
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Gove 20063
- Gray 20069
- Hamilton 20075
- Harper 20077
- Hodgeman 20083
- Kingman 20095
- Kiowa 20097
- Lyon 20111
- Meade 20119
- Mitchell 20123
- Montgomery 20125
- Morton 20129
- Nemaha 20131
- Norton 20137
- Osage 20139
- Rawlins 20153
- Reno 20155
- Republic 20157
- Rice 20159
- Riley 20161
- Rooks 20163
- Rush 20165
- Sedgwick 20173
- Seward 20175
- Shawnee 20177
- Sheridan 20179
- Smith 20183
- Stafford 20185
- Sumner 20191
- Trego 20195
- Woodson 20207
Kentucky view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 21 I ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 14 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 5 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 21 I ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Catron 35003
- Chaves 35005
- De Baca 35011
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Guadalupe 35019
- Lincoln 35027
- Los Alamos 35028
- McKinley 35031
- Quay 35037
- Rio Arriba 35039
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Juan 35045
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Taos 35055
- Valencia 35061
New York view state ↗ 8 I ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 31 I ▾
- Barnes 38003
- Benson 38005
- Billings 38007
- Bowman 38011
- Burke 38013
- Burleigh 38015
- Cass 38017
- Dickey 38021
- Divide 38023
- Emmons 38029
- Grand Forks 38035
- Grant 38037
- Griggs 38039
- Kidder 38043
- McIntosh 38051
- McLean 38055
- Mercer 38057
- Morton 38059
- Mountrail 38061
- Oliver 38065
- Pembina 38067
- Ramsey 38071
- Ransom 38073
- Richland 38077
- Sargent 38081
- Stark 38089
- Stutsman 38093
- Traill 38097
- Walsh 38099
- Wells 38103
- Williams 38105
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Utah view state ↗ 29 I ▾
- Beaver 49001
- Box Elder 49003
- Cache 49005
- Carbon 49007
- Daggett 49009
- Davis 49011
- Duchesne 49013
- Emery 49015
- Garfield 49017
- Grand 49019
- Iron 49021
- Juab 49023
- Kane 49025
- Millard 49027
- Morgan 49029
- Piute 49031
- Rich 49033
- Salt Lake 49035
- San Juan 49037
- Sanpete 49039
- Sevier 49041
- Summit 49043
- Tooele 49045
- Uintah 49047
- Utah 49049
- Wasatch 49051
- Washington 49053
- Wayne 49055
- Weber 49057
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 8 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 5 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ELAN ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3039269 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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