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§1 Plant

Cannabis sativa L.

vernacular marijuana — species · Cannabaceae


USDA
CASA3
GBIF
5361880
Rank
species
marijuana (Cannabis sativa)
Platephotograph · Dinesh ValkeCC BY-NC-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Cannabaceae Martinov
Genus
Cannabis
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 370 counties across 28 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 370 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 370 counties across 28 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 3 I
Arizona view state ↗ 7 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 I
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Florida view state ↗ 6 I
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I
Illinois view state ↗ 59 I
Indiana view state ↗ 28 I
Iowa view state ↗ 14 I
Kansas view state ↗ 58 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 12 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 9 I
Maine view state ↗ 3 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 I
Michigan view state ↗ 20 I
Minnesota view state ↗ 32 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I
Montana view state ↗ 8 I
New Hampshire view state ↗ 5 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 4 I
New York view state ↗ 39 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 17 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 7 I
Vermont view state ↗ 7 I
Virginia view state ↗ 5 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 7 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/CASA3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/5361880 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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