Index / Search / Hesperostipa comata ssp. comata
§1 Plant
Hesperostipa comata (Trin. & Rupr.) Barkworth ssp. comata
vernacular needle and thread — subspecies · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Hesperostipa
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 385 counties across 24 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 130 min.
- Precipitation
- 5–20 in/yr
- pH range
- 6.6–8.4
- Root depth
- 16 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Thicket Forming
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- White
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 137,857
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 385 counties across 24 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 6 N ▾
California view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 44 N ▾
- Adams 08001
- Archuleta 08007
- Baca 08009
- Boulder 08013
- Chaffee 08015
- Cheyenne 08017
- Clear Creek 08019
- Conejos 08021
- Delta 08029
- Denver 08031
- Douglas 08035
- El Paso 08041
- Elbert 08039
- Fremont 08043
- Garfield 08045
- Gilpin 08047
- Grand 08049
- Gunnison 08051
- Huerfano 08055
- Jefferson 08059
- Kit Carson 08063
- Larimer 08069
- Las Animas 08071
- Lincoln 08073
- Logan 08075
- Mesa 08077
- Mineral 08079
- Moffat 08081
- Montezuma 08083
- Montrose 08085
- Morgan 08087
- Otero 08089
- Phillips 08095
- Pueblo 08101
- Rio Blanco 08103
- Routt 08107
- Saguache 08109
- San Juan 08111
- San Miguel 08113
- Sedgwick 08115
- Summit 08117
- Washington 08121
- Weld 08123
- Yuma 08125
Idaho view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Ada 16001
- Bannock 16005
- Bear Lake 16007
- Bingham 16011
- Blaine 16013
- Bonner 16017
- Bonneville 16019
- Butte 16023
- Canyon 16027
- Caribou 16029
- Cassia 16031
- Clark 16033
- Custer 16037
- Elmore 16039
- Fremont 16043
- Gem 16045
- Gooding 16047
- Idaho 16049
- Nez Perce 16069
- Oneida 16071
- Owyhee 16073
- Power 16077
- Teton 16081
- Twin Falls 16083
Illinois view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Big Stone 27011
- Cass 27021
- Chippewa 27023
- Clay 27027
- Douglas 27041
- Hennepin 27053
- Hubbard 27057
- Kittson 27069
- Lac qui Parle 27073
- Lake of the Woods 27077
- Lincoln 27081
- Lyon 27083
- Marshall 27089
- Norman 27107
- Pennington 27113
- Pipestone 27117
- Polk 27119
- Pope 27121
- Ramsey 27123
- Redwood 27127
- Sherburne 27141
- St. Louis 27137
- Stearns 27145
- Traverse 27155
Montana view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Antelope 31003
- Arthur 31005
- Box Butte 31013
- Brown 31017
- Buffalo 31019
- Chase 31029
- Cherry 31031
- Cheyenne 31033
- Custer 31041
- Dawes 31045
- Deuel 31049
- Dundy 31057
- Franklin 31061
- Frontier 31063
- Garden 31069
- Garfield 31071
- Greeley 31077
- Hitchcock 31087
- Holt 31089
- Hooker 31091
- Kearney 31099
- Keith 31101
- Kimball 31105
- Lincoln 31111
- Logan 31113
- Morrill 31123
- Perkins 31135
- Phelps 31137
- Scotts Bluff 31157
- Sheridan 31161
- Sioux 31165
- Stanton 31167
- Thomas 31171
- Valley 31175
- Webster 31181
Nevada view state ↗ 15 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 18 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 45 N ▾
- Adams 38001
- Barnes 38003
- Benson 38005
- Billings 38007
- Bottineau 38009
- Bowman 38011
- Burke 38013
- Burleigh 38015
- Cass 38017
- Cavalier 38019
- Dickey 38021
- Divide 38023
- Dunn 38025
- Emmons 38029
- Golden Valley 38033
- Grand Forks 38035
- Grant 38037
- Griggs 38039
- Kidder 38043
- LaMoure 38045
- Logan 38047
- McHenry 38049
- McKenzie 38053
- McLean 38055
- Mercer 38057
- Morton 38059
- Mountrail 38061
- Nelson 38063
- Oliver 38065
- Pembina 38067
- Pierce 38069
- Ramsey 38071
- Ransom 38073
- Richland 38077
- Sargent 38081
- Sheridan 38083
- Sioux 38085
- Slope 38087
- Stark 38089
- Steele 38091
- Stutsman 38093
- Walsh 38099
- Ward 38101
- Wells 38103
- Williams 38105
Oklahoma view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 11 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Aurora 46003
- Beadle 46005
- Brookings 46011
- Brown 46013
- Campbell 46021
- Charles Mix 46023
- Codington 46029
- Corson 46031
- Custer 46033
- Day 46037
- Douglas 46043
- Edmunds 46045
- Fall River 46047
- Harding 46063
- Jerauld 46073
- Lawrence 46081
- Lincoln 46083
- Mellette 46095
- Pennington 46103
- Roberts 46109
- Sanborn 46111
- Spink 46115
- Stanley 46117
- Sully 46119
- Todd 46121
- Yankton 46135
Texas view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Beaver 49001
- Box Elder 49003
- Cache 49005
- Carbon 49007
- Daggett 49009
- Davis 49011
- Duchesne 49013
- Emery 49015
- Garfield 49017
- Grand 49019
- Juab 49023
- Kane 49025
- Millard 49027
- 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
Washington view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 21 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/HECOC8 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/4270657 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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