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§1 Plant

Gypsophila paniculata L.

vernacular baby's breath — species · Caryophyllaceae


USDA
GYPA
GBIF
5384458
Rank
species
baby's breath (Gypsophila paniculata)
Platephotograph · artiom_prokhorovCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Caryophyllaceae Juss.
Genus
Gypsophila
§2a

Native status, by region

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

County-level range

· 66 counties across 11 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 66 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 66 counties across 11 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 1 I
Florida view state ↗ 1 I
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I
Illinois view state ↗ 4 I
Maine view state ↗ 1 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 I
Michigan view state ↗ 17 I
Minnesota view state ↗ 12 I
Montana view state ↗ 21 I
New York view state ↗ 3 I
Vermont view state ↗ 3 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/GYPA ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/5384458 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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