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§1 Plant
Euonymus fortunei (Turcz.) Hand.-Maz.
vernacular winter creeper — 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
· 105 counties across 13 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 105 counties across 13 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 61 I ▾
- Adair 21001
- Allen 21003
- Anderson 21005
- Barren 21009
- Bell 21013
- Boone 21015
- Bourbon 21017
- Boyle 21021
- Bracken 21023
- Butler 21031
- Calloway 21035
- Campbell 21037
- Carroll 21041
- Carter 21043
- Christian 21047
- Clark 21049
- Clay 21051
- Clinton 21053
- Cumberland 21057
- Estill 21065
- Fayette 21067
- Franklin 21073
- Gallatin 21077
- Garrard 21079
- Harrison 21097
- Hart 21099
- Hopkins 21107
- Jackson 21109
- Jefferson 21111
- Jessamine 21113
- Kenton 21117
- Laurel 21125
- Lee 21129
- Lincoln 21137
- Lyon 21143
- Madison 21151
- Marion 21155
- Marshall 21157
- Mason 21161
- McCracken 21145
- McCreary 21147
- Menifee 21165
- Metcalfe 21169
- Monroe 21171
- Muhlenberg 21177
- Nicholas 21181
- Ohio 21183
- Oldham 21185
- Powell 21197
- Pulaski 21199
- Robertson 21201
- Rockcastle 21203
- Russell 21207
- Scott 21209
- Shelby 21211
- Simpson 21213
- Todd 21219
- Warren 21227
- Washington 21229
- Whitley 21235
- Woodford 21239
Massachusetts view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 11 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 5 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/EUFO5 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3169137 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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