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§1 Plant
Baptisia lanceolata (Walter) Elliott
vernacular gopherweed — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Baptisia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 58 counties across 4 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 58 counties across 4 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Baker 12003
- Bay 12005
- Bradford 12007
- Calhoun 12013
- Clay 12019
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gulf 12045
- Hernando 12053
- Holmes 12059
- Jackson 12063
- Leon 12073
- Liberty 12077
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- St. Johns 12109
- Union 12125
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Baker 13007
- Ben Hill 13017
- Berrien 13019
- Bleckley 13023
- Brantley 13025
- Brooks 13027
- Bulloch 13031
- Charlton 13049
- Clinch 13065
- Colquitt 13071
- Crisp 13081
- Dodge 13091
- Irwin 13155
- Jackson 13157
- Jeff Davis 13161
- Johnson 13167
- Laurens 13175
- Marion 13197
- Mitchell 13205
- Pierce 13229
- Screven 13251
- Taylor 13269
- Telfair 13271
- Tift 13277
- Toombs 13279
- Turner 13287
- Wayne 13305
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BALA3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2976122 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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