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§1 Plant

Psilostrophe tagetina (Nutt.) Greene

vernacular woolly paperflower — species · Asteraceae


USDA
PSTA
GBIF
3087652
Rank
species
woolly paperflower (Psilostrophe tagetina)
Platephotograph · Aaron Balam source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Subshrub
Duration
Biennial, Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Genus
Psilostrophe
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 140 counties across 7 states/territories
Legend Native · 140 Introduced · 0 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 140 counties across 7 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 6 N
Colorado view state ↗ 3 N
Kansas view state ↗ 10 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 29 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 15 N
Texas view state ↗ 75 N
Utah view state ↗ 2 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/PSTA ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/3087652 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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