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§1 Plant
Hudsonia tomentosa Nutt.
vernacular woolly beachheather — species · Cistaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Cistaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Hudsonia
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 129 counties across 19 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -13 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 170 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–6.9
- Root depth
- 26 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 1 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Gray-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Dense
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- Yes
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 129 counties across 19 states/territories.
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Alger 26003
- Allegan 26005
- Arenac 26011
- Baraga 26013
- Bay 26017
- Benzie 26019
- Berrien 26021
- Cheboygan 26031
- Chippewa 26033
- Crawford 26039
- Delta 26041
- Houghton 26061
- Iosco 26069
- Keweenaw 26083
- Leelanau 26089
- Luce 26095
- Mackinac 26097
- Macomb 26099
- Manistee 26101
- Marquette 26103
- Mason 26105
- Muskegon 26121
- Oceana 26127
- Ottawa 26139
- Schoolcraft 26153
- Van Buren 26159
Minnesota view state ↗ 14 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 7 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 9 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Adams 55001
- Ashland 55003
- Bayfield 55007
- Burnett 55013
- Clark 55019
- Columbia 55021
- Dane 55025
- Douglas 55031
- Eau Claire 55035
- Grant 55043
- Green 55045
- Iowa 55049
- Iron 55051
- Jackson 55053
- La Crosse 55063
- Marquette 55077
- Monroe 55081
- Pierce 55093
- Polk 55095
- Portage 55097
- Richland 55103
- Sauk 55111
- Trempealeau 55121
- Washburn 55129
- Waushara 55137
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/HUTO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5331111 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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