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§1 Plant
Boerhavia coccinea Mill.
vernacular scarlet spiderling — species · Nyctaginaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Nyctaginaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Boerhavia
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
County-level range
· 57 counties across 5 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 57 counties across 5 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 11 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 5 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 39 N ▾
- Aransas 48007
- Bastrop 48021
- Bell 48027
- Brewster 48043
- Caldwell 48055
- Calhoun 48057
- Cameron 48061
- Culberson 48109
- Dallas 48113
- Dimmit 48127
- El Paso 48141
- Ellis 48139
- Galveston 48167
- Gonzales 48177
- Grayson 48181
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hudspeth 48229
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jones 48253
- Kenedy 48261
- Kimble 48267
- Kleberg 48273
- Llano 48299
- Marion 48315
- McCulloch 48307
- Nueces 48355
- Presidio 48377
- Reeves 48389
- Starr 48427
- Sutton 48435
- Tarrant 48439
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Val Verde 48465
- Washington 48477
- Webb 48479
- Willacy 48489
- Wilson 48493
- Zapata 48505
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BOCO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3086287 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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