Index / Search / Ludwigia erecta
§1 Plant
Ludwigia erecta (L.) H. Hara
vernacular yerba de jicotea — species · Onagraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Onagraceae Juss.
- Genus
- Ludwigia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b
County-level range
· 29 counties across 2 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 29 counties across 2 states/territories.
Florida view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Broward 12011
- Calhoun 12013
- Collier 12021
- Franklin 12037
- Gulf 12045
- Hardee 12049
- Hendry 12051
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Nassau 12089
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- Sumter 12119
- Walton 12131
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LUER ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5420986 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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