Index / Search / Colocasia esculenta
§1 Plant
Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott
vernacular coco yam — species · Araceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Araceae Juss.
- Genus
- Colocasia
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 96 counties across 9 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 96 counties across 9 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 30 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- DeSoto 12027
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Glades 12043
- Hendry 12051
- Indian River 12061
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Orange 12095
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pinellas 12103
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- Sumter 12119
- Volusia 12127
Georgia view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 36 I ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Assumption 22007
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Iberia 22045
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Livingston 22063
- Morehouse 22067
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Rapides 22079
- Richland 22083
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Washington 22117
- West Feliciana 22125
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Puerto Rico view state ↗ 8 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/COES ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5330776 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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