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§1 Plant

Silphium asteriscus L. var. asteriscus

vernacular starry rosinweed — variety · Asteraceae


USDA
SIASA3
GBIF
7066408
Rank
variety
starry rosinweed (Silphium asteriscus var. asteriscus)
Platephotograph · ThePrairiePreacherCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 97 counties across 9 states/territories
Legend Native · 97 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 97 counties across 9 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 18 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N
Missouri view state ↗ 18 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 27 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 28 N
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/SIASA3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/7066408 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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