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§1 Plant
Centaurea americana Nutt.
vernacular American star-thistle — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Centaurea
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 191 counties across 11 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 191 counties across 11 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 14 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Atoka 40005
- Beckham 40009
- Bryan 40013
- Caddo 40015
- Carter 40019
- Cherokee 40021
- Choctaw 40023
- Cleveland 40027
- Comanche 40031
- Cotton 40033
- Creek 40037
- Custer 40039
- Garvin 40049
- Grady 40051
- Greer 40055
- Harmon 40057
- Jefferson 40067
- Johnston 40069
- Kingfisher 40073
- Kiowa 40075
- Latimer 40077
- Love 40085
- Marshall 40095
- Mayes 40097
- McCurtain 40089
- Murray 40099
- Noble 40103
- Oklahoma 40109
- Pittsburg 40121
- Pontotoc 40123
- Sequoyah 40135
- Tillman 40141
- Tulsa 40143
- Wagoner 40145
- Washington 40147
- Washita 40149
Texas view state ↗ 105 N ▾
- Andrews 48003
- Archer 48009
- Armstrong 48011
- Bandera 48019
- Bastrop 48021
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Cameron 48061
- Chambers 48071
- Childress 48075
- Clay 48077
- Coke 48081
- Coleman 48083
- Collin 48085
- Comal 48091
- Cooke 48097
- Crockett 48105
- Crosby 48107
- Culberson 48109
- Dallas 48113
- Deaf Smith 48117
- DeWitt 48123
- Ector 48135
- Ellis 48139
- Erath 48143
- Fayette 48149
- Frio 48163
- Galveston 48167
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Gonzales 48177
- Grayson 48181
- Grimes 48185
- Hall 48191
- Harris 48201
- Hays 48209
- Hill 48217
- Howard 48227
- Hudspeth 48229
- Hunt 48231
- Hutchinson 48233
- Irion 48235
- Jack 48237
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jefferson 48245
- Johnson 48251
- Karnes 48255
- Kendall 48259
- Kent 48263
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- La Salle 48283
- Leon 48289
- Live Oak 48297
- Llano 48299
- Loving 48301
- Lubbock 48303
- Madison 48313
- Matagorda 48321
- Maverick 48323
- McLennan 48309
- Medina 48325
- Midland 48329
- Mills 48333
- Motley 48345
- Nacogdoches 48347
- Navarro 48349
- Nolan 48353
- Parker 48367
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Reagan 48383
- Reeves 48389
- Refugio 48391
- Robertson 48395
- San Patricio 48409
- San Saba 48411
- Shackelford 48417
- Stephens 48429
- Sterling 48431
- Sutton 48435
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Titus 48449
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Walker 48471
- Washington 48477
- Webb 48479
- Wichita 48485
- Williamson 48491
- Winkler 48495
- Young 48503
- Zapata 48505
- Zavala 48507
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CEAM2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3128091 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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