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§1 Plant
Nasturtium officinale W.T. Aiton
vernacular watercress — species · Brassicaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Brassicaceae Burnett
- Genus
- Nasturtium
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 346 counties across 22 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 346 counties across 22 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Alaska view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 21 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 21 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 28 I ▾
- Beaverhead 30001
- Blaine 30005
- Carbon 30009
- Cascade 30013
- Deer Lodge 30023
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Glacier 30035
- Granite 30039
- Jefferson 30043
- Lake 30047
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Lincoln 30053
- Madison 30057
- Meagher 30059
- Missoula 30063
- Park 30067
- Phillips 30071
- Pondera 30073
- Powell 30077
- Ravalli 30081
- Richland 30083
- Sanders 30089
- Silver Bow 30093
- Stillwater 30095
- Teton 30099
- Valley 30105
- Yellowstone 30111
New Hampshire view state ↗ 3 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 17 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 29 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Chautauqua 36013
- Chemung 36015
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Genesee 36037
- Kings 36047
- Madison 36053
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Niagara 36063
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Suffolk 36103
- Tioga 36107
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
North Carolina view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 51 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Armstrong 42005
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clearfield 42033
- Crawford 42039
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Franklin 42055
- Huntingdon 42061
- Juniata 42067
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Mifflin 42087
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Snyder 42109
- Somerset 42111
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Union 42119
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 50 I ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Amherst 51009
- Appomattox 51011
- Arlington 51013
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bland 51021
- Botetourt 51023
- Buchanan 51027
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Clarke 51043
- Dickenson 51051
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Floyd 51063
- Franklin 51067
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Gloucester 51073
- Grayson 51077
- Henrico 51087
- Highland 51091
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- Lee 51105
- Loudoun 51107
- Madison 51113
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Nottoway 51135
- Orange 51137
- Page 51139
- Pulaski 51155
- Rappahannock 51157
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Russell 51167
- Scott 51169
- Shenandoah 51171
- Smyth 51173
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Surry 51181
- Tazewell 51185
- Washington 51191
- Wythe 51197
- York 51199
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/NAOF ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7701037 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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