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§1 Plant
Euonymus alatus (Thunb.) Siebold
vernacular burningbush — species · Celastraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Celastraceae R. Br.
- Genus
- Euonymus
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 170 counties across 18 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 170 counties across 18 states/territories.
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 64 I ▾
- Adair 21001
- Allen 21003
- Anderson 21005
- Bath 21011
- Bourbon 21017
- Boyd 21019
- Boyle 21021
- Bracken 21023
- Breathitt 21025
- Breckinridge 21027
- Bullitt 21029
- Butler 21031
- Calloway 21035
- Campbell 21037
- Carroll 21041
- Carter 21043
- Casey 21045
- Cumberland 21057
- Daviess 21059
- Edmonson 21061
- Estill 21065
- Fayette 21067
- Franklin 21073
- Garrard 21079
- Grayson 21085
- Green 21087
- Greenup 21089
- Hancock 21091
- Hardin 21093
- Harrison 21097
- Hart 21099
- Jackson 21109
- Jefferson 21111
- Kenton 21117
- Knott 21119
- Larue 21123
- Laurel 21125
- Lee 21129
- Leslie 21131
- Lewis 21135
- Lyon 21143
- Madison 21151
- Mason 21161
- Mercer 21167
- Metcalfe 21169
- Monroe 21171
- Montgomery 21173
- Nelson 21179
- Nicholas 21181
- Oldham 21185
- Owsley 21189
- Pendleton 21191
- Powell 21197
- Pulaski 21199
- Robertson 21201
- Rowan 21205
- Russell 21207
- Scott 21209
- Shelby 21211
- Taylor 21217
- Warren 21227
- Washington 21229
- Wayne 21231
- Wolfe 21237
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 14 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 5 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/EUAL13 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3169120 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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