Index / Search / Sherardia arvensis
§1 Plant
Sherardia arvensis L.
vernacular blue fieldmadder — species · Rubiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Rubiaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Sherardia
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 271 counties across 26 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 271 counties across 26 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 35 I ▾
- Ashley 05003
- Baxter 05005
- Benton 05007
- Boone 05009
- Bradley 05011
- Carroll 05015
- Clark 05019
- Cleburne 05023
- Cleveland 05025
- Columbia 05027
- Conway 05029
- Dallas 05039
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Garland 05051
- Hempstead 05057
- Hot Spring 05059
- Howard 05061
- Jefferson 05069
- Johnson 05071
- Madison 05087
- Marion 05089
- Montgomery 05097
- Newton 05101
- Ouachita 05103
- Perry 05105
- Polk 05113
- Pope 05115
- Scott 05127
- Searcy 05129
- St. Francis 05123
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- Yell 05149
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 41 I ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Jackson 22049
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- Tensas 22107
- Union 22111
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Maine view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 9 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 7 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 7 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 25 I ▾
- Anderson 47001
- Blount 47009
- Coffee 47031
- Davidson 47037
- Giles 47055
- Hardeman 47069
- Hardin 47071
- Haywood 47075
- Humphreys 47085
- Jefferson 47089
- Knox 47093
- Lincoln 47103
- Loudon 47105
- Marion 47115
- Marshall 47117
- Montgomery 47125
- Polk 47139
- Roane 47145
- Rutherford 47149
- Sequatchie 47153
- Shelby 47157
- Stewart 47161
- Sumner 47165
- Washington 47179
- Williamson 47187
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 47 I ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Albemarle 51003
- Amherst 51009
- Bland 51021
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Charles City 51036
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Cumberland 51049
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Essex 51057
- Fauquier 51061
- Giles 51071
- Gloucester 51073
- Halifax 51083
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Hanover 51085
- Henrico 51087
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King George 51099
- Lancaster 51103
- Mathews 51115
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Middlesex 51119
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Nottoway 51135
- Page 51139
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince Edward 51147
- Richmond 51159
- Russell 51167
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Tazewell 51185
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Washington 51191
- Westmoreland 51193
- York 51199
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SHAR2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5339050 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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