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§1 Plant
Vitex negundo L.
vernacular Chinese chastetree — species · Verbenaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Verbenaceae J. St.-Hil.
- Genus
- Vitex
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 14 counties across 6 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 14 counties across 6 states/territories.
Florida view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 4 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/VINE2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2925564 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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