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§1 Plant

Froelichia floridana (Nutt.) Moq.

vernacular plains snakecotton — species · Amaranthaceae


USDA
FRFL
GBIF
5384326
Rank
species
plains snakecotton (Froelichia floridana)
Platephotograph · Donna LucasCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Amaranthaceae Martinov
Genus
Froelichia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 249 counties across 18 states/territories
Legend Native · 249 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 249 counties across 18 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 15 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 20 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 51 N
Georgia view state ↗ 25 N
Illinois view state ↗ 29 N
Indiana view state ↗ 4 N
Iowa view state ↗ 3 N
Kansas view state ↗ 34 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 9 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 15 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 5 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 N
New York view state ↗ 2 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 8 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 22 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/FRFL ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/5384326 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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