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§1 Plant

Dicentra cucullaria (L.) Bernh.

vernacular dutchman's breeches — species · Fumariaceae


USDA
DICU
GBIF
2888548
Rank
species
dutchman's breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)
Platephotograph · Ana Ka'ahanuiCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Fumariaceae Marquis
Genus
Dicentra
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 974 counties across 32 states/territories
Legend Native · 974 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 974 counties across 32 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 6 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 19 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Georgia view state ↗ 7 N
Illinois view state ↗ 98 N
Indiana view state ↗ 57 N
Iowa view state ↗ 23 N
Kansas view state ↗ 35 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 65 N
Maine view state ↗ 9 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 8 N
Michigan view state ↗ 64 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 49 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N
Missouri view state ↗ 100 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 17 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 5 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 15 N
New York view state ↗ 46 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 17 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 2 N
Ohio view state ↗ 70 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 4 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 55 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 6 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 31 N
Vermont view state ↗ 13 N
Virginia view state ↗ 59 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 41 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 49 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/DICU ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2888548 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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