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§1 Plant

Helianthus maximiliani Schrad.

vernacular Maximilian sunflower — species · Asteraceae


USDA
HEMA2
GBIF
3119206
Rank
species
Maximilian sunflower (Helianthus maximiliani)
Platephotograph · smwhiteCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Genus
Helianthus
§2a

Native status, by region

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

County-level range

· 563 counties across 27 states/territories
Legend Native · 563 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 563 counties across 27 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 9 N
Colorado view state ↗ 6 N
Illinois view state ↗ 16 N
Indiana view state ↗ 4 N
Iowa view state ↗ 15 N
Kansas view state ↗ 88 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 16 N
Maine view state ↗ 3 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N
Michigan view state ↗ 20 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 52 N
Missouri view state ↗ 25 N
Montana view state ↗ 8 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 34 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 N
New York view state ↗ 6 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 9 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 43 N
Ohio view state ↗ 20 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 16 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 3 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 39 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 24 N
Texas view state ↗ 57 N
Virginia view state ↗ 22 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 2 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 22 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/HEMA2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/3119206 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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