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§1 Plant

Cardiospermum halicacabum L.

vernacular balloon vine — species · Sapindaceae


USDA
CAHA13
GBIF
3189939
Rank
species
balloon vine (Cardiospermum halicacabum)
Platephotograph · Kuan-Chieh (Chuck) HungCC BY-NC-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Vine
Duration
Annual, Biennial, Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Sapindaceae Juss.
Genus
Cardiospermum
§2a

Native status, by region

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

County-level range

· 141 counties across 17 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 141 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 141 counties across 17 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 6 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 21 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Florida view state ↗ 5 I
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I
Illinois view state ↗ 6 I
Kansas view state ↗ 6 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 9 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 51 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 I
Michigan view state ↗ 1 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 15 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 I
New York view state ↗ 1 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 4 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 11 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/CAHA13 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/3189939 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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