Index / Search / Pediomelum hypogaeum
§1 Plant
Pediomelum hypogaeum (Nutt. ex Torr. & A. Gray) Rydb.
vernacular subterranean Indian breadroot — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Pediomelum
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 116 counties across 9 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 116 counties across 9 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 71 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Angelina 48005
- Armstrong 48011
- Austin 48015
- Bastrop 48021
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Brazos 48041
- Briscoe 48045
- Burnet 48053
- Caldwell 48055
- Callahan 48059
- Cass 48067
- Childress 48075
- Colorado 48089
- Comal 48091
- Comanche 48093
- Cooke 48097
- Crane 48103
- Dallas 48113
- Denton 48121
- Ellis 48139
- Erath 48143
- Freestone 48161
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Goliad 48175
- Gonzales 48177
- Grayson 48181
- Grimes 48185
- Guadalupe 48187
- Hardeman 48197
- Hardin 48199
- Harris 48201
- Harrison 48203
- Henderson 48213
- Hood 48221
- Jackson 48239
- Jasper 48241
- Johnson 48251
- Kendall 48259
- Kerr 48265
- Lampasas 48281
- Leon 48289
- Lubbock 48303
- Martin 48317
- McLennan 48309
- Mills 48333
- Mitchell 48335
- Morris 48343
- Nacogdoches 48347
- Navarro 48349
- Parker 48367
- Potter 48375
- Randall 48381
- Sabine 48403
- San Augustine 48405
- Shelby 48419
- Smith 48423
- Tarrant 48439
- Terry 48445
- Throckmorton 48447
- Travis 48453
- Van Zandt 48467
- Victoria 48469
- Waller 48473
- Williamson 48491
- Wilson 48493
- Wise 48497
- Wood 48499
Wyoming view state ↗ 5 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PEHY4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2944196 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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