Index / Search / Palafoxia sphacelata
§1 Plant
Palafoxia sphacelata (Nutt. ex Torr.) Cory
vernacular othake — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Palafoxia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 100 counties across 6 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 100 counties across 6 states/territories.
Colorado view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 46 N ▾
- Andrews 48003
- Bailey 48017
- Briscoe 48045
- Childress 48075
- Cochran 48079
- Collingsworth 48087
- Cottle 48101
- Crane 48103
- Crockett 48105
- Culberson 48109
- Dallam 48111
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Donley 48129
- Ector 48135
- El Paso 48141
- Ellis 48139
- Fisher 48151
- Floyd 48153
- Gaines 48165
- Garza 48169
- Grayson 48181
- Hall 48191
- Hardeman 48197
- Hartley 48205
- Hemphill 48211
- Hudspeth 48229
- Hutchinson 48233
- Irion 48235
- Jackson 48239
- Lamb 48279
- Lipscomb 48295
- Loving 48301
- Lubbock 48303
- Mitchell 48335
- Motley 48345
- Oldham 48359
- Pecos 48371
- Potter 48375
- Presidio 48377
- Reeves 48389
- Roberts 48393
- Ward 48475
- Wheeler 48483
- Wichita 48485
- Wilbarger 48487
- Winkler 48495
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PASP ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3121702 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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