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§1 Plant

Acroptilon repens (L.) DC.

vernacular hardheads — species · Asteraceae


USDA
ACRE3
GBIF
10676000 syn.
Rank
species
hardheads (Acroptilon repens)
Platephotograph · Stan ShebsCC BY-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 361 counties across 24 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 361 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 361 counties across 24 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 7 I
California view state ↗ 52 I
Colorado view state ↗ 18 I
Idaho view state ↗ 43 I
Illinois view state ↗ 3 I
Kansas view state ↗ 21 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 I
Michigan view state ↗ 2 I
Minnesota view state ↗ 2 I
Missouri view state ↗ 1 I
Montana view state ↗ 56 I
Nebraska view state ↗ 6 I
Nevada view state ↗ 10 I
New Mexico view state ↗ 23 I
North Dakota view state ↗ 22 I
Ohio view state ↗ 1 I
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 I
Oregon view state ↗ 22 I
South Dakota view state ↗ 6 I
Texas view state ↗ 1 I
Utah view state ↗ 16 I
Washington view state ↗ 19 I
Wisconsin view state ↗ 3 I
Wyoming view state ↗ 23 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/ACRE3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/10676000 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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