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§1 Plant
Berberis vulgaris L.
vernacular common barberry — species · Berberidaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Berberidaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Berberis
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 178 counties across 15 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 178 counties across 15 states/territories.
Illinois view state ↗ 19 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 8 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 13 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 39 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chemung 36015
- Chenango 36017
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Cortland 36023
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Genesee 36037
- Greene 36039
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Livingston 36051
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Otsego 36077
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schoharie 36095
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 26 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Cameron 42023
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Cumberland 42041
- Delaware 42045
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Franklin 42055
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lebanon 42075
- Luzerne 42079
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Snyder 42109
- Susquehanna 42115
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
Rhode Island view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 10 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 5 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BEVU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3033894 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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