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§1 Plant
Descurainia sophia (L.) Webb ex Prantl
vernacular herb sophia — species · Brassicaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Biennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Brassicaceae Burnett
- Genus
- Descurainia
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Introduced
- GL Greenland Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 131 counties across 19 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 131 counties across 19 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 44 I ▾
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Blaine 30005
- Broadwater 30007
- Carbon 30009
- Carter 30011
- Chouteau 30015
- Custer 30017
- Daniels 30019
- Dawson 30021
- Fergus 30027
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Garfield 30033
- Glacier 30035
- Golden Valley 30037
- Jefferson 30043
- Judith Basin 30045
- Lake 30047
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Lincoln 30053
- Madison 30057
- McCone 30055
- Meagher 30059
- Missoula 30063
- Musselshell 30065
- Park 30067
- Petroleum 30069
- Phillips 30071
- Pondera 30073
- Powder River 30075
- Powell 30077
- Prairie 30079
- Ravalli 30081
- Richland 30083
- Roosevelt 30085
- Rosebud 30087
- Sanders 30089
- Sheridan 30091
- Silver Bow 30093
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Teton 30099
- Valley 30105
- Wibaux 30109
New Hampshire view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 8 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 12 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 8 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 4 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DESO2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3044318 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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