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§1 Plant

Glechoma hederacea L.

vernacular ground ivy — species · Lamiaceae


USDA
GLHE2
GBIF
2926557
Rank
species
ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea)
Platephotograph · viktorie_kolouchovaCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Lamiaceae Martinov
Genus
Glechoma
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 848 counties across 30 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 848 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 848 counties across 30 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 4 I
Alaska view state ↗ 1 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 29 I
Delaware view state ↗ 2 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Florida view state ↗ 3 I
Georgia view state ↗ 8 I
Illinois view state ↗ 73 I
Indiana view state ↗ 56 I
Iowa view state ↗ 13 I
Kansas view state ↗ 18 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 67 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 19 I
Maine view state ↗ 14 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I
Michigan view state ↗ 53 I
Minnesota view state ↗ 41 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 7 I
Montana view state ↗ 25 I
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 19 I
New York view state ↗ 43 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 48 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 65 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 6 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 42 I
Vermont view state ↗ 13 I
Virginia view state ↗ 99 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 51 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/GLHE2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2926557 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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