Index / Search / Erythrina herbacea
§1 Plant
Erythrina herbacea L.
vernacular redcardinal — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Subshrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Erythrina
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 153 counties across 8 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 153 counties across 8 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 48 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Brevard 12009
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Duval 12031
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Gulf 12045
- Hamilton 12047
- Hardee 12049
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
- Taylor 12123
- Union 12125
- Volusia 12127
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 42 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Sabine 22085
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Adams 28001
- Amite 28005
- Clarke 28023
- Covington 28031
- Forrest 28035
- Franklin 28037
- George 28039
- Hancock 28045
- Harrison 28047
- Hinds 28049
- Jackson 28059
- Jasper 28061
- Jefferson 28063
- Kemper 28069
- Lamar 28073
- Marion 28091
- Pike 28113
- Rankin 28121
- Scott 28123
- Stone 28131
- Walthall 28147
- Washington 28151
- Wilkinson 28157
North Carolina view state ↗ 3 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ERHE4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5349731 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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