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§1 Plant

Helianthus petiolaris Nutt. ssp. petiolaris

vernacular prairie sunflower — subspecies · Asteraceae


USDA
HEPEP
GBIF
4274504
Rank
subspecies
prairie sunflower (Helianthus petiolaris ssp. petiolaris)
Platephotograph · Matt BergerCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual
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

· 419 counties across 28 states/territories
Legend Native · 419 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 419 counties across 28 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 1 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 N
Illinois view state ↗ 46 N
Indiana view state ↗ 11 N
Iowa view state ↗ 7 N
Kansas view state ↗ 79 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 3 N
Maine view state ↗ 2 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 N
Michigan view state ↗ 12 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 21 N
Missouri view state ↗ 15 N
Montana view state ↗ 33 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 46 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 12 N
New York view state ↗ 5 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 3 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 35 N
Ohio view state ↗ 10 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 34 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 6 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 17 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N
Virginia view state ↗ 2 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 2 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 4 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/HEPEP ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/4274504 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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