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§1 Plant
Thinopyrum ponticum (Podp.) Z.-W. Liu & R.-C. Wang
vernacular tall wheatgrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Thinopyrum
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 171 counties across 17 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 90 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–28 in/yr
- pH range
- 6.6–10
- Root depth
- 20 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Gray-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 75,320
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 171 counties across 17 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 2 I ▾
California view state ↗ 18 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 18 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 25 I ▾
- Box Butte 31013
- Buffalo 31019
- Custer 31041
- Dawes 31045
- Dawson 31047
- Garden 31069
- Hall 31079
- Harlan 31083
- Kearney 31099
- Lancaster 31109
- Lincoln 31111
- McPherson 31117
- Merrick 31121
- Morrill 31123
- Phelps 31137
- Platte 31141
- Red Willow 31145
- Richardson 31147
- Saline 31151
- Scotts Bluff 31157
- Sheridan 31161
- Sherman 31163
- Sioux 31165
- Valley 31175
- Wheeler 31183
Nevada view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 17 I ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 11 I ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Utah view state ↗ 20 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 3 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/THPO7 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/10986555 ↗Record version
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