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§1 Plant

Spermolepis inermis (Nutt. ex DC.) Mathias & Constance

vernacular Red River scaleseed — species · Apiaceae


USDA
SPIN
GBIF
5371849
Rank
species
Red River scaleseed (Spermolepis inermis)
Platephotograph · Linda Jo ConnCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§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

· 231 counties across 16 states/territories
Legend Native · 231 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 231 counties across 16 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 9 N
Illinois view state ↗ 16 N
Indiana view state ↗ 1 N
Iowa view state ↗ 2 N
Kansas view state ↗ 61 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 17 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 1 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 N
Missouri view state ↗ 26 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 14 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 2 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 30 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 3 N
Texas view state ↗ 45 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/SPIN ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/5371849 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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