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§1 Plant

Parnassia glauca Raf.

vernacular fen grass of Parnassus — species · Saxifragaceae


USDA
PAGL3
GBIF
3032583
Rank
species
fen grass of Parnassus (Parnassia glauca)
Platephotograph · aarongunnarCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Saxifragaceae Juss.
Genus
Parnassia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 285 counties across 16 states/territories
Legend Native · 285 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 285 counties across 16 states/territories.

Illinois view state ↗ 23 N
Indiana view state ↗ 28 N
Iowa view state ↗ 2 N
Maine view state ↗ 2 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 8 N
Michigan view state ↗ 46 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 39 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 4 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 8 N
New York view state ↗ 38 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 7 N
Ohio view state ↗ 25 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 9 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 N
Vermont view state ↗ 10 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 34 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/PAGL3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/3032583 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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