Index / Search / Mecardonia procumbens
§1 Plant
Mecardonia procumbens (Mill.) Small
vernacular baby jump-up — species · Scrophulariaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Scrophulariaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Mecardonia
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
County-level range
· 91 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 91 counties across 5 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- Evangeline 22039
- Iberville 22047
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- Livingston 22063
- Morehouse 22067
- Orleans 22071
- Plaquemines 22075
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vermilion 22113
- West Feliciana 22125
Texas view state ↗ 53 N ▾
- Austin 48015
- Bandera 48019
- Bastrop 48021
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Brooks 48047
- Burleson 48051
- Burnet 48053
- Caldwell 48055
- Calhoun 48057
- Cameron 48061
- Comal 48091
- Dallas 48113
- Denton 48121
- Fayette 48149
- Galveston 48167
- Goliad 48175
- Gonzales 48177
- Hardin 48199
- Harris 48201
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Jackson 48239
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jim Wells 48249
- Kenedy 48261
- Kerr 48265
- Kleberg 48273
- Lavaca 48285
- Llano 48299
- McLennan 48309
- McMullen 48311
- Medina 48325
- Montgomery 48339
- Nueces 48355
- Refugio 48391
- Robertson 48395
- San Patricio 48409
- San Saba 48411
- Starr 48427
- Terrell 48443
- Travis 48453
- Tyler 48457
- Val Verde 48465
- Walker 48471
- Waller 48473
- Ward 48475
- Washington 48477
- Willacy 48489
- Williamson 48491
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MEPR2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3172014 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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