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§1 Plant

Oenothera curtiflora W.L. Wagner & Hoch

vernacular velvetweed — species · Onagraceae


USDA
OECU2
GBIF
3667406
Rank
species
velvetweed (Oenothera curtiflora)
Platephotograph · Christen NoblittCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Onagraceae Juss.
Genus
Oenothera
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 245 counties across 15 states/territories
Legend Native · 245 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 245 counties across 15 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 13 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 13 N
Florida view state ↗ 3 N
Georgia view state ↗ 5 N
Illinois view state ↗ 37 N
Indiana view state ↗ 7 N
Iowa view state ↗ 6 N
Kansas view state ↗ 93 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 39 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 N
Montana view state ↗ 21 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 3 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/OECU2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3667406 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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