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§1 Plant

Jatropha gossypiifolia L. var. gossypiifolia

vernacular bellyache bush — variety · Euphorbiaceae

USDA
JAGOG
GBIF
7276336
Rank
variety
bellyache bush (Jatropha gossypiifolia var. gossypiifolia)
Platephotograph · Len deBeer source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Subshrub
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Euphorbiaceae Juss.
Genus
Jatropha
§2a

Native status, by region

  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • PR Puerto Rico Native
  • VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b

County-level range

· 1 county across 1 state
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 1 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 1 county across 1 state.

Hawaii view state ↗ 1 I ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/JAGOG ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/7276336 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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