Index / Search / Melampodium leucanthum
§1 Plant
Melampodium leucanthum Torr. & A. Gray
vernacular plains blackfoot — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Melampodium
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 172 counties across 6 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 172 counties across 6 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 18 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Chaves 35005
- Curry 35009
- De Baca 35011
- Dona Ana 35013
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Guadalupe 35019
- Harding 35021
- Hidalgo 35023
- Lea 35025
- Lincoln 35027
- Luna 35029
- Mora 35033
- Otero 35035
- Quay 35037
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Taos 35055
- Torrance 35057
- Union 35059
Oklahoma view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 100 N ▾
- Andrews 48003
- Archer 48009
- Armstrong 48011
- Bailey 48017
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Bosque 48035
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Callahan 48059
- Carson 48065
- Childress 48075
- Cochran 48079
- Coleman 48083
- Collingsworth 48087
- Comal 48091
- Comanche 48093
- Cottle 48101
- Crane 48103
- Crockett 48105
- Crosby 48107
- Culberson 48109
- Dallam 48111
- Dawson 48115
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Dickens 48125
- Donley 48129
- Eastland 48133
- Ector 48135
- El Paso 48141
- Ellis 48139
- Erath 48143
- Fisher 48151
- Floyd 48153
- Gaines 48165
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Glasscock 48173
- Gray 48179
- Hamilton 48193
- Hansford 48195
- Hardeman 48197
- Hartley 48205
- Hays 48209
- Hemphill 48211
- Howard 48227
- Hudspeth 48229
- Hutchinson 48233
- Irion 48235
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jones 48253
- Kendall 48259
- Kent 48263
- Kerr 48265
- Knox 48275
- Lamb 48279
- Lampasas 48281
- Lipscomb 48295
- Loving 48301
- Lubbock 48303
- Martin 48317
- McLennan 48309
- Midland 48329
- Mills 48333
- Moore 48341
- Motley 48345
- Nolan 48353
- Ochiltree 48357
- Oldham 48359
- Palo Pinto 48363
- Parmer 48369
- Pecos 48371
- Potter 48375
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Reagan 48383
- Reeves 48389
- Runnels 48399
- San Saba 48411
- Shackelford 48417
- Sherman 48421
- Stephens 48429
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Throckmorton 48447
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Upton 48461
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Ward 48475
- Washington 48477
- Wichita 48485
- Wilbarger 48487
- Williamson 48491
- Winkler 48495
- Yoakum 48501
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MELE2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3139009 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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