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§1 Plant

Phyllanthus urinaria L.

vernacular chamber bitter — species · Euphorbiaceae


USDA
PHUR
GBIF
5382780
Rank
species
chamber bitter (Phyllanthus urinaria)
Platephotograph · budakCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Euphorbiaceae Juss.
Genus
Phyllanthus
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 115 counties across 11 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 115 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 115 counties across 11 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 7 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 5 I
Florida view state ↗ 35 I
Georgia view state ↗ 10 I
Illinois view state ↗ 1 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 34 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 5 I
Missouri view state ↗ 1 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I
Texas view state ↗ 15 I
Virginia view state ↗ 1 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/PHUR ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/5382780 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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