Hudsonia tomentosa -- (False Heather)


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 Scientific Name:  Hudsonia tomentosa
 Common Name:  False Heather
 Other Common Names:  Beach Heather, Woolly Beachheather
 Duration of Life:  Perennial
 Bloom Color:  Yellow
 Soil Moisture:  Dry
 Plant Origin:  Native
 Soil Type prefered:  Sand
 Drought Tolerance:  High
 Flower Conspicuous:  Yes
 Soil Fertility Requirement:  Low
 Moisture Use:  Low
 Shade Tolerance:  Intolerant
 Active Growth Period:  Spring, Summer
 Anaerobic Tolerance:  None
 Calcium Carbonate Tolerance:  High
 Bloom Period:  Late Spring
 Commercial Availability:  Routinely Available
 Competitivness:  Sensitive
 Cold Stratification Required:  Yes
 Best established via:  Plant
 Fall Conspicuous:  Yes
 Frost Free Days, Minimum:  170
 Foliage Color:  Gray-Green
 Fruit/Seed Abundance:  Low
 Fruit/Seed Period Begin:  Summer
 Fruit/Seed Conspicuous:  No
 Fruit/Seed Period End:  Fall
 Fruit/Seed Color:  Brown
 Fruit/Seed Persistence:  No
 Fire Tolerance:  Medium
 Foliage Texture:  Fine
 Growth Form:  Multiple Stem
 Growth Habit:  Subshrub, Shrub
 Growth Rate:  Slow
 Height at 20 Years, Max. feet:  0
 Height, Mature (feet):  1
 Leaf Retention:  No
 Low Growing Grass:  No
 Life Span:  Long
 Max. Planting Density/Acre:  1200
 Min. Planting Density/Acre:  700
 pH (Maximum):  6.9
 pH (Minimum):  5.5
 Precipitation (Minimum):  35
 Protein Potential:  Low
 Resprout Ability:  No
 Root Depth, Min. (inches):  26
 Salt Tolerance:  High
 Shape and Orientation:  Decumbent
 Flowering Months:  May, June
 Small Grain:  No
 Seed Spread Rate:  Slow
 Seedling Vigor:  Low
 Temperature, Minimum (F):  -13
 Toxicity:  None
 Vegetative Spread Rate:  None
 Found in Old fields:  No
 Found in Virgin fields:  No
 Propagation:  Bare Root, Container, Cuttings, Seed
 Palpable: (eatable)  Browse Animal (Low), Graze Animal (Low)
 Where Found in S.E. MN:

 Category:  Dicot
 Division:  Magnoliophyta
 Class:  Magnoliopsida
 Order:  Violales
 Family:  Cistaceae
 Genus:  Hudsonia

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