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§1 Plant

Callisia fragrans (Lindl.) Woodson

vernacular basketplant — species · Commelinaceae


USDA
CAFR6
GBIF
5303453
Rank
species
basketplant (Callisia fragrans)
Platephotograph · makelikeanapemanCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Commelinaceae Mirb.
Genus
Callisia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
  • VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 8 counties across 2 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 8 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 8 counties across 2 states/territories.


§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/CAFR6 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5303453 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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