Penthorum sedoides -- (Ditch Stonecrop)


 
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 Scientific Name:  Penthorum sedoides
 Common Name:  Ditch Stonecrop
 Duration of Life:  Perennial
 Bloom Color:  Yellow
 Plant Origin:  Native
 Soil Type prefered:  Clay
 Drought Tolerance:  Medium
 Flower Conspicuous:  No
 Soil Fertility Requirement:  Medium
 Moisture Use:  Medium
 Shade Tolerance:  Intermediate
 Active Growth Period:  Spring
 Anaerobic Tolerance:  Low
 Calcium Carbonate Tolerance:  Medium
 Bloom Period:  Spring
 Commercial Availability:  Routinely Available
 Cold Stratification Required:  No
 Fall Conspicuous:  No
 Frost Free Days, Minimum:  120
 Foliage Color:  Green
 Fruit/Seed Abundance:  Medium
 Fruit/Seed Period Begin:  Spring
 Fruit/Seed Conspicuous:  No
 Fruit/Seed Period End:  Summer
 Fruit/Seed Persistence:  No
 Foliage Texture:  Medium
 Growth Form:  Stoloniferous
 Growth Habit:  Forb/herb
 Growth Rate:  Slow
 Height, Mature (feet):  2.6
 Leaf Retention:  No
 Low Growing Grass:  No
 Life Span:  Moderate
 pH (Maximum):  7
 pH (Minimum):  5
 Precipitation (Minimum):  30
 Resprout Ability:  No
 Root Depth, Min. (inches):  14
 Salt Tolerance:  None
 Shape and Orientation:  Erect
 Small Grain:  No
 Seed per Pound:  45000000
 Seed Spread Rate:  Slow
 Seedling Vigor:  Low
 Temperature, Minimum (F):  -28
 Toxicity:  None
 Vegetative Spread Rate:  Moderate
 Propagation:  Seed
 Palpable: (eatable)  Graze Animal (Low)
 Where Found in S.E. MN:

 Category:  Dicot
 Division:  Magnoliophyta
 Class:  Magnoliopsida
 Order:  Rosales
 Family:  Crassulaceae
 Genus:  Penthorum

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