Index / Search / Dioscorea bulbifera
§1 Plant
Dioscorea bulbifera L.
vernacular air yam — species · Dioscoreaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Vine
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Dioscoreaceae R. Br.
- Genus
- Dioscorea
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 32 counties across 5 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 32 counties across 5 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 21 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Citrus 12017
- Collier 12021
- DeSoto 12027
- Franklin 12037
- Hardee 12049
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Marion 12083
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Nassau 12089
- Orange 12095
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Sarasota 12115
Georgia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DIBU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2755489 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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