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§1 Plant

Cryptantha cinerea (Greene) Cronquist

vernacular James' cryptantha — species · Boraginaceae


USDA
CRCI3
GBIF
8134274 syn.
Rank
species
James' cryptantha (Cryptantha cinerea)
Platephotograph · ellen hildebrandtCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Subshrub
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Boraginaceae Juss.
Genus
Cryptantha
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 151 counties across 9 states/territories
Legend Native · 151 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 151 counties across 9 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 10 N
Colorado view state ↗ 28 N
Kansas view state ↗ 14 N
Montana view state ↗ 1 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 17 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 30 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 5 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 1 N
Texas view state ↗ 45 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/CRCI3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/8134274 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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