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§1 Plant

Urena lobata L.

vernacular Caesarweed — species · Malvaceae


USDA
URLO
GBIF
3152253
Rank
species
Caesarweed (Urena lobata)
Platephotograph · Ong Jyh SengCC BY-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Subshrub
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Malvaceae Juss.
Genus
Urena
§2a

Native status, by region

  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Native
  • VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b

County-level range

· 38 counties across 3 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 38 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 38 counties across 3 states/territories.


§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/URLO ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/3152253 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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