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§1 Plant
Helenium microcephalum DC.
vernacular smallhead sneezeweed — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Helenium
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 95 counties across 4 states/territories§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 95 counties across 4 states/territories.
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 82 N ▾
- Andrews 48003
- Archer 48009
- Bastrop 48021
- Baylor 48023
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Brown 48049
- Burleson 48051
- Burnet 48053
- Callahan 48059
- Cameron 48061
- Carson 48065
- Childress 48075
- Coleman 48083
- Concho 48095
- Coryell 48099
- Cottle 48101
- Crane 48103
- Crockett 48105
- Culberson 48109
- Duval 48131
- El Paso 48141
- Falls 48145
- Floyd 48153
- Foard 48155
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Grayson 48181
- Hall 48191
- Hardeman 48197
- Haskell 48207
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hudspeth 48229
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jefferson 48245
- Jim Wells 48249
- Karnes 48255
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Kinney 48271
- Knox 48275
- La Salle 48283
- Lamb 48279
- Live Oak 48297
- Maverick 48323
- McCulloch 48307
- McLennan 48309
- McMullen 48311
- Medina 48325
- Menard 48327
- Palo Pinto 48363
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Reagan 48383
- Reeves 48389
- Robertson 48395
- Runnels 48399
- San Patricio 48409
- San Saba 48411
- Schleicher 48413
- Shackelford 48417
- Starr 48427
- Stephens 48429
- Sutton 48435
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Ward 48475
- Webb 48479
- Wilbarger 48487
- Willacy 48489
- Williamson 48491
- Young 48503
- Zapata 48505
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/HEMI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5401883 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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