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§1 Plant

Pastinaca sativa L.

vernacular wild parsnip — species · Apiaceae


USDA
PASA2
GBIF
8262702
Rank
species
wild parsnip (Pastinaca sativa)
Platephotograph · Pavel GorbunovCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Biennial, Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Apiaceae Lindl.
Genus
Pastinaca
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 482 counties across 24 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 482 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 482 counties across 24 states/territories.

Alaska view state ↗ 1 I
Arizona view state ↗ 3 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 I
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Illinois view state ↗ 102 I
Indiana view state ↗ 51 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 31 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 I
Maine view state ↗ 16 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I
Montana view state ↗ 18 I
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 15 I
New York view state ↗ 32 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 19 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 64 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 13 I
Vermont view state ↗ 13 I
Virginia view state ↗ 40 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 33 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/PASA2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/8262702 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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