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§1 Plant
Spermacoce assurgens Ruiz & Pav.
vernacular woodland false buttonweed — species · Rubiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Rubiaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Spermacoce
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
County-level range
· 45 counties across 4 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 45 counties across 4 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Calhoun 12013
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Collier 12021
- DeSoto 12027
- Escambia 12033
- Gadsden 12039
- Glades 12043
- Hardee 12049
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Liberty 12077
- Manatee 12081
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Nassau 12089
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Lucie 12111
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
- Taylor 12123
Georgia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 4 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SPAS2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2918667 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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