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§1 Plant

Pyrrhopappus carolinianus (Walter) DC.

vernacular Carolina desert-chicory — species · Asteraceae


USDA
PYCA2
GBIF
3145236
Rank
species
Carolina desert-chicory (Pyrrhopappus carolinianus)
Platephotograph · J. Richard AbbottCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 817 counties across 23 states/territories
Legend Native · 817 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 817 counties across 23 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 11 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 70 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 49 N
Georgia view state ↗ 37 N
Illinois view state ↗ 43 N
Indiana view state ↗ 15 N
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N
Kansas view state ↗ 46 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 51 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 64 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 8 N
Missouri view state ↗ 100 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 5 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 81 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 27 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 42 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 53 N
Texas view state ↗ 43 N
Virginia view state ↗ 67 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/PYCA2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/3145236 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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