Index / Search / Acanthospermum australe
§1 Plant
Acanthospermum australe (Loefl.) Kuntze
vernacular Paraguayan starbur — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Acanthospermum
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 76 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 76 counties across 8 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 34 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Bay 12005
- Bradford 12007
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Hamilton 12047
- Hernando 12053
- Jackson 12063
- Lake 12069
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Madison 12079
- Marion 12083
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
- Volusia 12127
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 25 I ▾
- Baker 13007
- Berrien 13019
- Camden 13039
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Clarke 13059
- Colquitt 13071
- Columbia 13073
- DeKalb 13089
- Dodge 13091
- Early 13099
- Irwin 13155
- Jackson 13157
- Jefferson 13163
- Jenkins 13165
- Johnson 13167
- Lowndes 13185
- Madison 13195
- McIntosh 13191
- Oconee 13219
- Peach 13225
- Screven 13251
- Stewart 13259
- Tift 13277
- Worth 13321
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ACAU2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3100364 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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