Index / Search / Commelina erecta var. angustifolia

§1 Plant

Commelina erecta L. var. angustifolia (Michx.) Fernald

vernacular whitemouth dayflower — variety · Commelinaceae


USDA
COERA
GBIF
2764395
Rank
variety
whitemouth dayflower (Commelina erecta var. angustifolia)
Platephotograph · Luís Roberto da SilvaCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Commelinaceae Mirb.
Genus
Commelina
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 154 counties across 13 states/territories
Legend Native · 154 Introduced · 0 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 154 counties across 13 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 1 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 N
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N
Georgia view state ↗ 9 N
Illinois view state ↗ 3 N
Indiana view state ↗ 11 N
Kansas view state ↗ 46 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 4 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N
Missouri view state ↗ 19 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 11 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 8 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 37 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/COERA ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2764395 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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