Index / Search / Kickxia elatine
§1 Plant
Kickxia elatine (L.) Dumort.
vernacular sharpleaf cancerwort — species · Scrophulariaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Scrophulariaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Kickxia
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 174 counties across 24 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 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 ▾
- Barry 29009
- Bollinger 29017
- Camden 29029
- Cape Girardeau 29031
- Carroll 29033
- Carter 29035
- Cass 29037
- Christian 29043
- Clay 29047
- Cooper 29053
- Crawford 29055
- Douglas 29067
- Franklin 29071
- Gasconade 29073
- Jackson 29095
- Jefferson 29099
- Laclede 29105
- Madison 29123
- Marion 29127
- McDonald 29119
- Oregon 29149
- Ozark 29153
- Perry 29157
- Randolph 29175
- Reynolds 29179
- Ripley 29181
- Shannon 29203
- St. Clair 29185
- St. Louis 29189
- Stone 29209
- Taney 29213
- Texas 29215
- Washington 29221
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 ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Albemarle 51003
- Amelia 51007
- Arlington 51013
- Campbell 51031
- Charles City 51036
- Chesterfield 51041
- Cumberland 51049
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Gloucester 51073
- Goochland 51075
- Greensville 51081
- James City 51095
- Lunenburg 51111
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Nottoway 51135
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince Edward 51147
- Prince William 51153
- Richmond 51159
- Roanoke 51161
- Shenandoah 51171
- Southampton 51175
- Westmoreland 51193
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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