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§1 Plant

Helianthus pauciflorus Nutt.

vernacular stiff sunflower — species · Asteraceae


USDA
HEPA19
GBIF
3119231
Rank
species
stiff sunflower (Helianthus pauciflorus)
Platephotograph · Peter GormanCC BY-NC-SA 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

· 533 counties across 22 states/territories
Legend Native · 533 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 533 counties across 22 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 4 N
Georgia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 77 N
Indiana view state ↗ 28 N
Iowa view state ↗ 22 N
Kansas view state ↗ 48 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 8 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 N
Michigan view state ↗ 21 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 65 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N
Missouri view state ↗ 61 N
Montana view state ↗ 12 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 39 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 8 N
New York view state ↗ 3 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 41 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 12 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 24 N
Virginia view state ↗ 2 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 51 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/HEPA19 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/3119231 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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