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§1 Plant
Datura wrightii Regel
vernacular sacred thorn-apple — species · Solanaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Solanaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Datura
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 123 counties across 28 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 123 counties across 28 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 11 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 3 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DAWR2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2928741 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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