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§1 Plant

Thaspium trifoliatum (L.) A. Gray

vernacular purple meadowparsnip — species · Apiaceae


USDA
THTR
GBIF
3034874
Rank
species
purple meadowparsnip (Thaspium trifoliatum)
Platephotograph · psweetCC BY-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Apiaceae Lindl.
Genus
Thaspium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 787 counties across 27 states/territories
Legend Native · 787 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 787 counties across 27 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 33 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 35 N
Florida view state ↗ 5 N
Georgia view state ↗ 21 N
Illinois view state ↗ 67 N
Indiana view state ↗ 69 N
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N
Kansas view state ↗ 8 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 63 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 14 N
Maryland view state ↗ 4 N
Michigan view state ↗ 8 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 31 N
Missouri view state ↗ 63 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 1 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 15 N
New York view state ↗ 12 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 45 N
Ohio view state ↗ 85 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 4 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 33 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 12 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 56 N
Texas view state ↗ 7 N
Virginia view state ↗ 61 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 23 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 11 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/THTR ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/3034874 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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