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§1 Plant
Cynanchum barbigerum (Scheele) Shinners
vernacular bearded swallow-wort — species · Asclepiadaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Vine
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asclepiadaceae Borkh.
- Genus
- Cynanchum
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 31 counties across 1 state§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 31 counties across 1 state.
Texas view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Aransas 48007
- Bee 48025
- Bexar 48029
- Brooks 48047
- Burnet 48053
- Cameron 48061
- Comal 48091
- DeWitt 48123
- Dimmit 48127
- Frio 48163
- Gillespie 48171
- Gonzales 48177
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Jim Wells 48249
- Karnes 48255
- Kenedy 48261
- Kinney 48271
- Kleberg 48273
- Llano 48299
- Mason 48319
- Nueces 48355
- Refugio 48391
- San Patricio 48409
- Starr 48427
- Terrell 48443
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Willacy 48489
- Zapata 48505
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CYBA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3170384 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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