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§1 Plant

Parthenium hysterophorus L.

vernacular Santa Maria feverfew — species · Asteraceae


USDA
PAHY
GBIF
3086784
Rank
species
Santa Maria feverfew (Parthenium hysterophorus)
Platephotograph · Bernard DUPONTCC BY-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Genus
Parthenium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
  • VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 186 counties across 19 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 186 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 186 counties across 19 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 6 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Florida view state ↗ 19 I
Georgia view state ↗ 2 I
Illinois view state ↗ 2 I
Kansas view state ↗ 6 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 41 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 I
Michigan view state ↗ 1 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 6 I
Missouri view state ↗ 4 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 I
New York view state ↗ 1 I
Ohio view state ↗ 2 I
Oklahoma view state ↗ 13 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 I
Texas view state ↗ 74 I
Virginia view state ↗ 2 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/PAHY ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/3086784 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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