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§1 Plant

Frangula betulifolia (Greene) V. Grub. ssp. obovata (Kearney & Peebles) Kartesz & Gandhi

vernacular obovate buckthorn — subspecies · Rhamnaceae

USDA
FRBEO
GBIF
7939376 syn.
Rank
subspecies
obovate buckthorn (Frangula betulifolia ssp. obovata)
Platephotograph · BJ Stacey source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Tree
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Rhamnaceae Juss.
Genus
Frangula
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 24 counties across 5 states/territories
Legend Native · 24 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 24 counties across 5 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 7 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/FRBEO ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/7939376 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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