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§1 Plant

Stephanomeria exigua Nutt.

vernacular small wirelettuce — species · Asteraceae


USDA
STEX
GBIF
3141084
Rank
species
small wirelettuce (Stephanomeria exigua)
Platephotograph · Eric KoberleCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual, Biennial, Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Genus
Stephanomeria
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 94 counties across 11 states/territories
Legend Native · 94 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 94 counties across 11 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 12 N
California view state ↗ 24 N
Colorado view state ↗ 4 N
Idaho view state ↗ 5 N
Nevada view state ↗ 13 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 9 N
New York view state ↗ 1 N
Oregon view state ↗ 7 N
Texas view state ↗ 1 N
Utah view state ↗ 17 N
Wyoming view state ↗ 1 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/STEX ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/3141084 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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