Index / Search / Commelina caroliniana
§1 Plant
Commelina caroliniana Walter
vernacular Carolina dayflower — species · Commelinaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Commelinaceae Mirb.
- Genus
- Commelina
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 37 counties across 9 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 37 counties across 9 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 24 I ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Avoyelles 22009
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- Evangeline 22039
- Iberia 22045
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- LaSalle 22059
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Richland 22083
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vermilion 22113
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Carroll 22123
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 1 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/COCA17 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2764260 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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