Index / Search / Argythamnia mercurialina
§1 Plant
Argythamnia mercurialina (Nutt.) Müll. Arg.
vernacular tall silverbush — species · Euphorbiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Argythamnia
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 68 counties across 6 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 68 counties across 6 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 42 N ▾
- Armstrong 48011
- Bailey 48017
- Bell 48027
- Brazos 48041
- Brooks 48047
- Caldwell 48055
- Collin 48085
- Collingsworth 48087
- Crosby 48107
- Culberson 48109
- Dallas 48113
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Denton 48121
- DeWitt 48123
- Ellis 48139
- Erath 48143
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Goliad 48175
- Gonzales 48177
- Grayson 48181
- Grimes 48185
- Hutchinson 48233
- Jackson 48239
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Johnson 48251
- Jones 48253
- Kenedy 48261
- Kimble 48267
- Leon 48289
- Lubbock 48303
- McLennan 48309
- Ochiltree 48357
- Oldham 48359
- San Patricio 48409
- Shackelford 48417
- Sherman 48421
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Travis 48453
- Wichita 48485
- Wise 48497
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ARME5 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5380338 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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