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§1 Plant

Chaiturus marrubiastrum (L.) Rchb.

vernacular lion's tail — species · Lamiaceae


USDA
CHMA18
GBIF
2927071
Rank
species
lion's tail (Chaiturus marrubiastrum)
Platephotograph · Sebastian J. DunklCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Biennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Lamiaceae Martinov
Genus
Chaiturus
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 66 counties across 17 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 66 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 66 counties across 17 states/territories.

Delaware view state ↗ 1 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Illinois view state ↗ 17 I
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I
Iowa view state ↗ 3 I
Kansas view state ↗ 1 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 I
Michigan view state ↗ 2 I
Minnesota view state ↗ 1 I
Nebraska view state ↗ 4 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 I
Ohio view state ↗ 10 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 11 I
South Dakota view state ↗ 1 I
Virginia view state ↗ 5 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 2 I
Wisconsin view state ↗ 2 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/CHMA18 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2927071 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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