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§1 Plant
Alyssum desertorum Stapf
vernacular desert madwort — species · Brassicaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Brassicaceae Burnett
- Genus
- Alyssum
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 132 counties across 13 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 132 counties across 13 states/territories.
California view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 21 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 35 I ▾
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Broadwater 30007
- Carbon 30009
- Carter 30011
- Cascade 30013
- Chouteau 30015
- Fallon 30025
- Fergus 30027
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Golden Valley 30037
- Granite 30039
- Hill 30041
- Judith Basin 30045
- Lake 30047
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Madison 30057
- McCone 30055
- Meagher 30059
- Missoula 30063
- Musselshell 30065
- Park 30067
- Phillips 30071
- Powder River 30075
- Powell 30077
- Ravalli 30081
- Richland 30083
- Silver Bow 30093
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Teton 30099
- Valley 30105
- Wheatland 30107
- Wibaux 30109
- Yellowstone 30111
Nebraska view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 7 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 I ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 7 I ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Utah view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 20 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ALDE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3045082 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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