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§1 Plant

Sphenoclea zeylanica Gaertn.

vernacular chickenspike — species · Sphenocleaceae


USDA
SPZE
GBIF
3158672
Rank
species
chickenspike (Sphenoclea zeylanica)
Platephotograph · no rights reservedCC0 · public domain source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Sphenocleaceae T. Baskerv.
Genus
Sphenoclea
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 126 counties across 9 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 126 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 126 counties across 9 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 10 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 23 I
Florida view state ↗ 10 I
Georgia view state ↗ 4 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 54 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 17 I
Missouri view state ↗ 2 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 5 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/SPZE ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/3158672 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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