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§1 Plant

Verbesina helianthoides Michx.

vernacular gravelweed — species · Asteraceae


USDA
VEHE
GBIF
7792715
Rank
species
gravelweed (Verbesina helianthoides)
Platephotograph · Royal TylerCC BY-NC-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Genus
Verbesina
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 318 counties across 14 states/territories
Legend Native · 318 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 318 counties across 14 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 3 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 48 N
Illinois view state ↗ 66 N
Indiana view state ↗ 22 N
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N
Kansas view state ↗ 8 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 33 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 23 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 N
Missouri view state ↗ 53 N
Ohio view state ↗ 8 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 19 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 17 N
Texas view state ↗ 15 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/VEHE ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/7792715 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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