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§1 Plant
Valeriana officinalis L.
vernacular garden valerian — species · Valerianaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Valerianaceae Batsch
- Genus
- Valeriana
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 140 counties across 14 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 140 counties across 14 states/territories.
Illinois view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 3 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 5 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 9 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 28 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Cayuga 36011
- Chemung 36015
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Genesee 36037
- Herkimer 36043
- Kings 36047
- Livingston 36051
- Madison 36053
- Nassau 36059
- Onondaga 36067
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Richmond 36085
- Saratoga 36091
- Schuyler 36097
- Seneca 36099
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Steuben 36101
- Suffolk 36103
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Westchester 36119
Ohio view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 10 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/VAOF ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2888763 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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