Index / Search / Spermolepis echinata
§1 Plant
Spermolepis echinata (Nutt. ex DC.) A. Heller
vernacular bristly scaleseed — species · Apiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Apiaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Spermolepis
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 191 counties across 16 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 191 counties across 16 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 22 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Caddo 22017
- Cameron 22023
- De Soto 22031
- East Feliciana 22037
- Grant 22043
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lincoln 22061
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Sabine 22085
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 18 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Alfalfa 40003
- Blaine 40011
- Caddo 40015
- Canadian 40017
- Cleveland 40027
- Comanche 40031
- Ellis 40045
- Grady 40051
- Greer 40055
- Hughes 40063
- Kingfisher 40073
- Lincoln 40081
- Logan 40083
- Marshall 40095
- McClain 40087
- Muskogee 40101
- Oklahoma 40109
- Payne 40119
- Roger Mills 40129
- Stephens 40137
- Washington 40147
- Woodward 40153
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 43 N ▾
- Andrews 48003
- Bexar 48029
- Brewster 48043
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Callahan 48059
- Cameron 48061
- Cooke 48097
- Culberson 48109
- Dimmit 48127
- Eastland 48133
- El Paso 48141
- Ellis 48139
- Galveston 48167
- Gillespie 48171
- Gonzales 48177
- Grayson 48181
- Hamilton 48193
- Harris 48201
- Hemphill 48211
- Howard 48227
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Kleberg 48273
- La Salle 48283
- Liberty 48291
- Live Oak 48297
- Llano 48299
- Lubbock 48303
- Madison 48313
- McLennan 48309
- McMullen 48311
- Medina 48325
- Midland 48329
- Nueces 48355
- Reeves 48389
- Sabine 48403
- San Patricio 48409
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Travis 48453
- Walker 48471
- Webb 48479
- Zapata 48505
Virginia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SPEC2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5371852 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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