Index / Search / Zea mays ssp. mays
§1 Plant
Zea mays L. ssp. mays
vernacular corn — subspecies · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Zea
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 146 counties across 22 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 146 counties across 22 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 19 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 28 I ▾
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bienville 22013
- Caddo 22017
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Franklin 22041
- Lincoln 22061
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- Winn 22127
Maine view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 3 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 12 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 23 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Juniata 42067
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Lycoming 42081
- Mifflin 42087
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Westmoreland 42129
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 3 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ZEMAM2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7546411 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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