Data sources

Each value Trefle shows for Zanthoxylum americanum, with what every source says about it. When sources disagree, the strongest source is shown (how sources are ranked). Values imported before sources were recorded one by one are marked Source not recorded.

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Sourced5 Source not recorded9 Sources: TRY Plant Trait Database, Earlier Trefle data

Field	Shown	What the sources say
Core
Author	Mill.	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Bibliography	Gard. Dict. ed. 8: n.º 2 (1768)	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phylum	Tracheophyta	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Rank	species	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Status	accepted	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Year	1768	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Descriptive
Common name	Northern prickly-ash	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Observations	SE. Canada to C. & E. U.S.A. and Mexico (Nuevo León, Tamaulipas)	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Morphology
Average height	141 cm	141 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 42 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 28, 184, 335, 873, 925	Sourced
Biological type	phanerophyte	phanerophyte · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 327 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 925	Sourced
Growth habit	Tree, Shrub	Tree, Shrub · Earlier Trefle data · Reported · 2026-10-19 value present before provenance tracking (2022 import), no source recorded	Sourced
Vegetable	false	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phenology
Duration	perennial	perennial · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 330 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 28, 818, 925	Sourced
Cultivation
Minimum root depth	159 cm	159 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 432, 818	Sourced

Zanthoxylum americanum Mill., 1768 18% complete

Northern prickly-ash

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