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§1 Plant — species · Potamogetonaceae
Stuckenia pectinata (L.) Börner
vernacular sago pondweed
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Potamogetonaceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Stuckenia
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 125 min.
- Precipitation
- 12–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8.5
- Root depth
- 0 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Blue
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Montana distribution
Recorded in 21 of 56 Montana counties.
Native · 21 counties
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Carter 30011
- Cascade 30013
- Daniels 30019
- Dawson 30021
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Golden Valley 30037
- Lake 30047
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- McCone 30055
- Musselshell 30065
- Park 30067
- Phillips 30071
- Roosevelt 30085
- Sheridan 30091
- Teton 30099
- Treasure 30103
- Valley 30105
- Yellowstone 30111
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/STPE15 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7871428 ↗Record version
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