Index / Search / Ceratophyllum echinatum
§1 Plant
Ceratophyllum echinatum A. Gray
vernacular spineless hornwort — species · Ceratophyllaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Ceratophyllaceae Gray
- Genus
- Ceratophyllum
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 188 counties across 30 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 188 counties across 30 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 5 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Franklin 36033
- Oneida 36065
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Putnam 36079
- Richmond 36085
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 10 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CEEC2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5333331 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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