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§1 Plant
Tribulus terrestris L.
vernacular puncturevine — species · Zygophyllaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Zygophyllaceae R. Br.
- Genus
- Tribulus
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 250 counties across 21 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 250 counties across 21 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 39 I ▾
- Alexander 17003
- Carroll 17015
- Cass 17017
- Champaign 17019
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- Crawford 17033
- DeKalb 17037
- Douglas 17041
- DuPage 17043
- Fulton 17057
- Greene 17061
- Grundy 17063
- Henderson 17071
- Kane 17089
- Kankakee 17091
- Kendall 17093
- Lake 17097
- LaSalle 17099
- Lawrence 17101
- Macon 17115
- Madison 17119
- Marion 17121
- Mason 17125
- McHenry 17111
- Menard 17129
- Mercer 17131
- Monroe 17133
- Morgan 17137
- Peoria 17143
- Perry 17145
- Pulaski 17153
- Sangamon 17167
- Scott 17171
- St. Clair 17163
- Tazewell 17179
- Union 17181
- Wabash 17185
- Will 17197
Indiana view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 105 I ▾
- Allen 20001
- Anderson 20003
- Atchison 20005
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Bourbon 20011
- Brown 20013
- Butler 20015
- Chase 20017
- Chautauqua 20019
- Cherokee 20021
- Cheyenne 20023
- Clark 20025
- Clay 20027
- Cloud 20029
- Coffey 20031
- Comanche 20033
- Cowley 20035
- Crawford 20037
- Decatur 20039
- Dickinson 20041
- Doniphan 20043
- Douglas 20045
- Edwards 20047
- Elk 20049
- Ellis 20051
- Ellsworth 20053
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Franklin 20059
- Geary 20061
- Gove 20063
- Graham 20065
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Greeley 20071
- Greenwood 20073
- Hamilton 20075
- Harper 20077
- Harvey 20079
- Haskell 20081
- Hodgeman 20083
- Jackson 20085
- Jefferson 20087
- Jewell 20089
- Johnson 20091
- Kearny 20093
- Kingman 20095
- Kiowa 20097
- Labette 20099
- Lane 20101
- Leavenworth 20103
- Lincoln 20105
- Linn 20107
- Logan 20109
- Lyon 20111
- Marion 20115
- Marshall 20117
- McPherson 20113
- Meade 20119
- Miami 20121
- Mitchell 20123
- Montgomery 20125
- Morris 20127
- Morton 20129
- Nemaha 20131
- Neosho 20133
- Ness 20135
- Norton 20137
- Osage 20139
- Osborne 20141
- Ottawa 20143
- Pawnee 20145
- Phillips 20147
- Pottawatomie 20149
- Pratt 20151
- Rawlins 20153
- Reno 20155
- Republic 20157
- Rice 20159
- Riley 20161
- Rooks 20163
- Rush 20165
- Russell 20167
- Saline 20169
- Scott 20171
- Sedgwick 20173
- Seward 20175
- Shawnee 20177
- Sheridan 20179
- Sherman 20181
- Smith 20183
- Stafford 20185
- Stanton 20187
- Stevens 20189
- Sumner 20191
- Thomas 20193
- Trego 20195
- Wabaunsee 20197
- Wallace 20199
- Washington 20201
- Wichita 20203
- Wilson 20205
- Woodson 20207
- Wyandotte 20209
Kentucky view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 7 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 7 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 7 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 3 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/TRTE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5421116 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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