Index / Search / Sphenoclea zeylanica
§1 Plant
Sphenoclea zeylanica Gaertn.
vernacular chickenspike — species · Sphenocleaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Sphenocleaceae T. Baskerv.
- Genus
- Sphenoclea
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
County-level range
· 126 counties across 9 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 126 counties across 9 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 23 I ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Bradley 05011
- Chicot 05017
- Clark 05019
- Craighead 05031
- Cross 05037
- Drew 05043
- Garland 05051
- Greene 05055
- Hot Spring 05059
- Independence 05063
- Lincoln 05079
- Lonoke 05085
- Monroe 05095
- Poinsett 05111
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- St. Francis 05123
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- White 05145
- Yell 05149
Florida view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 54 I ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- LaSalle 22059
- Livingston 22063
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
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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