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§1 Plant

Maianthemum canadense Desf.

vernacular Canada mayflower — species · Liliaceae


USDA
MACA4
GBIF
2769544
Rank
species
Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)
Platephotograph · Timothy ValentineCC BY-NC-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Liliaceae Juss.
Genus
Maianthemum
§2a

Native status, by region

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

County-level range

· 604 counties across 28 states/territories
Legend Native · 604 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 604 counties across 28 states/territories.

Delaware view state ↗ 3 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 76 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 58 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 20 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 52 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 19 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 40 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 65 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 5 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 44 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 24 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 69 N ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 1 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/MACA4 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2769544 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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