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§1 Plant

Silphium laciniatum L. var. laciniatum

vernacular compassplant — variety · Asteraceae


USDA
SILAL2
GBIF
3092583 syn.
Rank
variety
compassplant (Silphium laciniatum var. laciniatum)
Platephotograph · Sadie HickeyCC 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

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 370 counties across 20 states/territories
Legend Native · 370 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 370 counties across 20 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 18 N
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 86 N
Indiana view state ↗ 3 N
Iowa view state ↗ 27 N
Kansas view state ↗ 57 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 N
Michigan view state ↗ 9 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 24 N
Missouri view state ↗ 90 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 17 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 N
New York view state ↗ 1 N
Ohio view state ↗ 3 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 6 N
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 21 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/SILAL2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/3092583 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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