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§1 Plant
Chelone obliqua L.
vernacular red turtlehead — species · Scrophulariaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Scrophulariaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Chelone
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 116 counties across 16 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 116 counties across 16 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Adams 17001
- Alexander 17003
- Clay 17025
- Coles 17029
- Crawford 17033
- DuPage 17043
- Fulton 17057
- Gallatin 17059
- Hancock 17067
- Henderson 17071
- Henry 17073
- Jackson 17077
- Johnson 17087
- Knox 17095
- Lake 17097
- Lawrence 17101
- Madison 17119
- Mason 17125
- Massac 17127
- Perry 17145
- Pope 17151
- Pulaski 17153
- Richland 17159
- St. Clair 17163
- Union 17181
- Wabash 17185
- Wayne 17191
- White 17193
Indiana view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Allen 18003
- Crawford 18025
- Daviess 18027
- Gibson 18051
- Greene 18055
- Hamilton 18057
- Johnson 18081
- Knox 18083
- Lake 18089
- Lawrence 18093
- Marion 18097
- Martin 18101
- Montgomery 18107
- Owen 18119
- Parke 18121
- Pike 18125
- Posey 18129
- Putnam 18133
- Spencer 18147
- Sullivan 18153
- Tippecanoe 18157
- Vermillion 18165
- Vigo 18167
- Wabash 18169
- White 18181
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 8 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 4 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CHOB3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5414932 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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