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§1 Plant
Thelesperma filifolium (Hook.) A. Gray
vernacular stiff greenthread — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Thelesperma
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 255 counties across 12 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 255 counties across 12 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 19 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Beckham 40009
- Blaine 40011
- Caddo 40015
- Canadian 40017
- Carter 40019
- Cimarron 40025
- Cleveland 40027
- Comanche 40031
- Cotton 40033
- Custer 40039
- Delaware 40041
- Garvin 40049
- Grady 40051
- Greer 40055
- Harmon 40057
- Jefferson 40067
- Johnston 40069
- Kingfisher 40073
- Kiowa 40075
- Latimer 40077
- Lincoln 40081
- Logan 40083
- Major 40093
- Marshall 40095
- McClain 40087
- McCurtain 40089
- Murray 40099
- Okfuskee 40107
- Oklahoma 40109
- Osage 40113
- Payne 40119
- Pontotoc 40123
- Pottawatomie 40125
- Stephens 40137
- Texas 40139
- Tillman 40141
- Washita 40149
- Woods 40151
South Dakota view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 129 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Andrews 48003
- Aransas 48007
- Archer 48009
- Armstrong 48011
- Atascosa 48013
- Bastrop 48021
- Bee 48025
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Borden 48033
- Bosque 48035
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Brooks 48047
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Calhoun 48057
- Callahan 48059
- Cass 48067
- Castro 48069
- Childress 48075
- Clay 48077
- Coleman 48083
- Collin 48085
- Comanche 48093
- Concho 48095
- Coryell 48099
- Crockett 48105
- Crosby 48107
- Dallam 48111
- Dallas 48113
- Dawson 48115
- Denton 48121
- Dickens 48125
- Eastland 48133
- Edwards 48137
- Erath 48143
- Fannin 48147
- Fayette 48149
- Floyd 48153
- Franklin 48159
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Gonzales 48177
- Grayson 48181
- Grimes 48185
- Hall 48191
- Hamilton 48193
- Hansford 48195
- Hartley 48205
- Hays 48209
- Hill 48217
- Hockley 48219
- Howard 48227
- Hudspeth 48229
- Hutchinson 48233
- Jack 48237
- Jefferson 48245
- Jim Hogg 48247
- Jim Wells 48249
- Johnson 48251
- Jones 48253
- Karnes 48255
- Kenedy 48261
- Kent 48263
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- King 48269
- Kinney 48271
- Kleberg 48273
- La Salle 48283
- Lamar 48277
- Lamb 48279
- Lampasas 48281
- Lavaca 48285
- Limestone 48293
- Llano 48299
- Lubbock 48303
- Martin 48317
- Mason 48319
- Maverick 48323
- McCulloch 48307
- McLennan 48309
- Medina 48325
- Menard 48327
- Milam 48331
- Mills 48333
- Mitchell 48335
- Montague 48337
- Moore 48341
- Motley 48345
- Nolan 48353
- Oldham 48359
- Palo Pinto 48363
- Parker 48367
- Parmer 48369
- Potter 48375
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Red River 48387
- Robertson 48395
- Runnels 48399
- San Augustine 48405
- Schleicher 48413
- Scurry 48415
- Shackelford 48417
- Sherman 48421
- Stonewall 48433
- Sutton 48435
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Throckmorton 48447
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Walker 48471
- Washington 48477
- Webb 48479
- Wichita 48485
- Wilbarger 48487
- Williamson 48491
- Wilson 48493
- Wise 48497
- Young 48503
Utah view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/THFI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3095931 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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