Index / Search / Phemeranthus teretifolius
§1 Plant
Phemeranthus teretifolius (Pursh) Raf.
vernacular quill fameflower — species · Portulacaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Portulacaceae Dumort.
- Genus
- Phemeranthus
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 139 counties across 11 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 139 counties across 11 states/territories.
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 42 N ▾
- Bibb 13021
- Butts 13035
- Carroll 13045
- Clarke 13059
- Cobb 13067
- Columbia 13073
- Coweta 13077
- Dade 13083
- DeKalb 13089
- Douglas 13097
- Elbert 13105
- Fayette 13113
- Fulton 13121
- Greene 13133
- Gwinnett 13135
- Hancock 13141
- Hart 13147
- Henry 13151
- Jackson 13157
- Johnson 13167
- Jones 13169
- Lamar 13171
- Lumpkin 13187
- Meriwether 13199
- Morgan 13211
- Muscogee 13215
- Oconee 13219
- Oglethorpe 13221
- Pike 13231
- Putnam 13237
- Randolph 13243
- Rockdale 13247
- Spalding 13255
- Stephens 13257
- Toombs 13279
- Turner 13287
- Upson 13293
- Walker 13295
- Walton 13297
- Washington 13303
- White 13311
- Wilkes 13317
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 7 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Alexander 37003
- Alleghany 37005
- Anson 37007
- Buncombe 37021
- Forsyth 37067
- Franklin 37069
- Granville 37077
- Harnett 37085
- Henderson 37089
- Jackson 37099
- Mitchell 37121
- Montgomery 37123
- Nash 37127
- Polk 37149
- Randolph 37151
- Rowan 37159
- Rutherford 37161
- Stokes 37169
- Surry 37171
- Vance 37181
- Wake 37183
- Wilkes 37193
- Wilson 37195
- Yadkin 37197
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 40 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Amelia 51007
- Amherst 51009
- Appomattox 51011
- Augusta 51015
- Bedford 51019
- Brunswick 51025
- Buckingham 51029
- Carroll 51035
- Chesterfield 51041
- Craig 51045
- Culpeper 51047
- Cumberland 51049
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Fauquier 51061
- Floyd 51063
- Fluvanna 51065
- Franklin 51067
- Goochland 51075
- Grayson 51077
- Greene 51079
- Halifax 51083
- Henrico 51087
- Lunenburg 51111
- Madison 51113
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- Nottoway 51135
- Page 51139
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince Edward 51147
- Rappahannock 51157
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockingham 51165
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Warren 51187
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PHTE18 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/4022488 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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