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§1 Plant
Marshallia obovata (Walter) Beadle & F.E. Boynt.
vernacular spoonshape Barbara's buttons — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Marshallia
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 70 counties across 5 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 70 counties across 5 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Baldwin 13009
- Bartow 13015
- Burke 13033
- Calhoun 13037
- Cherokee 13057
- Clay 13061
- Cobb 13067
- Early 13099
- Floyd 13115
- Fulton 13121
- Gordon 13129
- Gwinnett 13135
- Haralson 13143
- Harris 13145
- Jackson 13157
- Lee 13177
- Macon 13193
- Meriwether 13199
- Oconee 13219
- Peach 13225
- Randolph 13243
- Richmond 13245
- Rockdale 13247
- Spalding 13255
- Sumter 13261
North Carolina view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Alamance 37001
- Bladen 37017
- Brunswick 37019
- Caswell 37033
- Chatham 37037
- Cherokee 37039
- Columbus 37047
- Cumberland 37051
- Davidson 37057
- Durham 37063
- Forsyth 37067
- Granville 37077
- Guilford 37081
- Harnett 37085
- Hoke 37093
- Iredell 37097
- Johnston 37101
- Lee 37105
- Mecklenburg 37119
- Montgomery 37123
- Moore 37125
- Nash 37127
- Orange 37135
- Pender 37141
- Person 37145
- Polk 37149
- Randolph 37151
- Richmond 37153
- Robeson 37155
- Rowan 37159
- Scotland 37165
- Stokes 37169
- Union 37179
- Vance 37181
- Wake 37183
- Warren 37185
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MAOB ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5393641 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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