Index / Search / Melochia corchorifolia
§1 Plant
Melochia corchorifolia L.
vernacular chocolateweed — species · Sterculiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Sterculiaceae Vent.
- Genus
- Melochia
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 110 counties across 11 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 110 counties across 11 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 27 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Bradford 12007
- Broward 12011
- Calhoun 12013
- Charlotte 12015
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gulf 12045
- Hardee 12049
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Jackson 12063
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Nassau 12089
- Pinellas 12103
- St. Johns 12109
- Sumter 12119
- Union 12125
Georgia view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 43 I ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Livingston 22063
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vermilion 22113
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Feliciana 22125
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MECO4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3152125 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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