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Nidorella ivifolia (eastern baccharis)

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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  High
Screening - Summer [2]  Dense
Screening - Winter [2]  Moderate
Bloom Period [2]  Late Summer
Drought Tolerance [2]  Low
Fire Tolerance [2]  Medium
Flower Type [3]  Dioecious
Frost Free Days [2]  6 months
Fruit/Seed Abundance [2]  High
Fruit/Seed Begin [2]  Fall
Fruit/Seed End [2]  Fall
Growth Form [2]  Multiple Stem
Growth Period [2]  Spring, Summer, Fall
Growth Rate [2]  Moderate
Hazards [3]  The plant is potentially toxic to livestck;
Leaf Type [3]  Deciduous
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [3]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Propagation [2]  Bare Root, Container, Seed
Root Depth [2]  20 inches (51 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [2]  Slow
Seed Vigor [2]  Low
Seeds Per [2]  85000 / lb (187393 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [2]  Erect
Structure [3]  Shrub
Usage [3]  A good fast-growing hedge for exposed maritime conditions; It retains its leaves into the new year but is rather bare in late winter; Plants have an extensive root system and can be grown on sand or thin coastal soils in order to bind the soil; Resinous secretions on the leaves and wood make this a useful fuel; It is a fairly small plant though and would not be a very productive source.
Vegetative Spread Rate [2]  None
Flower Color [2]  White
Foliage Color [2]  Dark Green
Fruit Color [2]  White
Fall Conspicuous [2]  Yes
Flower Conspicuous [2]  Yes
Height [3]  11.48 feet (3.5 m)
Width [3]  11.48 feet (3.5 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [2]  USDA Zone: 6 Low Temperature: -10 F° (-23.3 C°) → 0 F° (-17.8 C°)
Light Preference [2]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Infertile
Water Use [2]  High
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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0