Index / Search / Boehmeria nivea
§1 Plant
Boehmeria nivea (L.) Gaudich.
vernacular Chinese grass — species · Urticaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Urticaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Boehmeria
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 39 counties across 8 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 39 counties across 8 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 I ▾
California view state ↗ 30 I ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Butte 06007
- Colusa 06011
- Contra Costa 06013
- Fresno 06019
- Glenn 06021
- Imperial 06025
- Kern 06029
- Kings 06031
- Los Angeles 06037
- Madera 06039
- Mariposa 06043
- Merced 06047
- Orange 06059
- Riverside 06065
- Sacramento 06067
- San Benito 06069
- San Bernardino 06071
- San Diego 06073
- San Joaquin 06077
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Solano 06095
- Stanislaus 06099
- Sutter 06101
- Tehama 06103
- Tulare 06107
- Ventura 06111
- Yolo 06113
- Yuba 06115
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BONI2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2984359 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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