Index / Search / Vernonia acaulis
§1 Plant
Vernonia acaulis (Walter) Gleason
vernacular stemless ironweed — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Vernonia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 56 counties across 3 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 56 counties across 3 states/territories.
North Carolina view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Alamance 37001
- Anson 37007
- Bladen 37017
- Carteret 37031
- Chatham 37037
- Columbus 37047
- Cumberland 37051
- Greene 37079
- Harnett 37085
- Hoke 37093
- Johnston 37101
- Lee 37105
- Montgomery 37123
- Moore 37125
- Orange 37135
- Randolph 37151
- Richmond 37153
- Robeson 37155
- Rowan 37159
- Sampson 37163
- Scotland 37165
- Stanly 37167
- Union 37179
- Wayne 37191
South Carolina view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Abbeville 45001
- Anderson 45007
- Berkeley 45015
- Calhoun 45017
- Charleston 45019
- Chesterfield 45025
- Clarendon 45027
- Colleton 45029
- Darlington 45031
- Dillon 45033
- Dorchester 45035
- Edgefield 45037
- Florence 45041
- Georgetown 45043
- Greenwood 45047
- Horry 45051
- Kershaw 45055
- Lancaster 45057
- Lee 45061
- Lexington 45063
- Marion 45067
- Marlboro 45069
- McCormick 45065
- Newberry 45071
- Richland 45079
- Saluda 45081
- York 45091
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/VEAC ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5397176 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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