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§1 Plant
Bassia hyssopifolia (Pall.) Kuntz
vernacular fivehorn smotherweed — species · Chenopodiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Chenopodiaceae Vent.
- Genus
- Bassia
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 166 counties across 19 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 52 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 135 min.
- Precipitation
- 7–24 in/yr
- pH range
- 6.5–9.1
- Root depth
- 9 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 0.8 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Gray-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Black
- 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
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 1,500
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 166 counties across 19 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 6 I ▾
California view state ↗ 30 I ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Butte 06007
- Colusa 06011
- Contra Costa 06013
- El Dorado 06017
- Fresno 06019
- Glenn 06021
- Imperial 06025
- Inyo 06027
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Lassen 06035
- Los Angeles 06037
- Marin 06041
- Merced 06047
- Mono 06051
- Monterey 06053
- Orange 06059
- Plumas 06063
- San Bernardino 06071
- San Diego 06073
- San Francisco 06075
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- San Mateo 06081
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Siskiyou 06093
- Stanislaus 06099
- Ventura 06111
- Yolo 06113
Colorado view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 13 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 5 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 7 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 4 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
Washington view state ↗ 12 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BAHY ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5383909 ↗Record version
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