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§1 Plant

Linnaea borealis L. ssp. americana (Forbes) Hultén ex R.T. Clausen

vernacular twinflower — subspecies · Caprifoliaceae


USDA
LIBOA
GBIF
7514090 syn.
Rank
subspecies
twinflower (Linnaea borealis ssp. americana)
Platephotograph · Li JianongCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Native
  • CAN Canada Native
  • GL Greenland Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b

County-level range

· 262 counties across 22 states/territories
Legend Native · 262 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 262 counties across 22 states/territories.

Alaska view state ↗ 3 N
Arizona view state ↗ 2 N
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N
Indiana view state ↗ 4 N
Maine view state ↗ 16 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 10 N
Michigan view state ↗ 53 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 25 N
Montana view state ↗ 22 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 N
New York view state ↗ 28 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 2 N
Ohio view state ↗ 2 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 11 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 4 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N
Vermont view state ↗ 14 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 3 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 44 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/LIBOA ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/7514090 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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