§1 Plant
Glycine max (L.) Merr.
vernacular soybean — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Glycine
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 132 counties across 24 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -28 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 140 min.
- Precipitation
- 16–59 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–7.8
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- Medium
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- None
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 4,880
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- High
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Protein potential
- High
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 132 counties across 24 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 33 I ▾
- Boone 17007
- Cass 17017
- Champaign 17019
- Christian 17021
- Clinton 17027
- Cook 17031
- DeKalb 17037
- DuPage 17043
- Grundy 17063
- Hamilton 17065
- Hancock 17067
- Iroquois 17075
- Jackson 17077
- Johnson 17087
- Kane 17089
- Kankakee 17091
- Kendall 17093
- Lake 17097
- Lawrence 17101
- Livingston 17105
- Marion 17121
- Massac 17127
- McDonough 17109
- McHenry 17111
- Moultrie 17139
- Pike 17149
- Pulaski 17153
- Randolph 17157
- Scott 17171
- Union 17181
- Vermilion 17183
- Wayne 17191
- Will 17197
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 34 I ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Beauregard 22011
- Caddo 22017
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Carroll 22123
- Winn 22127
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 3 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 9 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/GLMA4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5359660 ↗Record version
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