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§1 Plant

Kickxia elatine (L.) Dumort.

vernacular sharpleaf cancerwort — species · Scrophulariaceae


USDA
KIEL
GBIF
3170819
Rank
species
sharpleaf cancerwort (Kickxia elatine)
Platephotograph · Christian SchwarzCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Scrophulariaceae Juss.
Genus
Kickxia
§2a

Native status, by region

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

County-level range

· 174 counties across 24 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 174 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 174 counties across 24 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 2 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 13 I
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Illinois view state ↗ 19 I
Indiana view state ↗ 6 I
Kansas view state ↗ 3 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 15 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 I
Maryland view state ↗ 1 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 I
Michigan view state ↗ 1 I
Missouri view state ↗ 33 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 I
New York view state ↗ 6 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 3 I
Ohio view state ↗ 9 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 5 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 16 I
Virginia view state ↗ 26 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 6 I
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/KIEL ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/3170819 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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