Index / Search / Cuphea carthagenensis
§1 Plant
Cuphea carthagenensis (Jacq.) J.F. Macbr.
vernacular Colombian waxweed — species · Lythraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Lythraceae J. St.-Hil.
- Genus
- Cuphea
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 174 counties across 12 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 174 counties across 12 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 52 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Bradford 12007
- Brevard 12009
- Calhoun 12013
- Charlotte 12015
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Glades 12043
- Hardee 12049
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Jefferson 12065
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Madison 12079
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Nassau 12089
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Sumter 12119
- Taylor 12123
- Union 12125
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 41 I ▾
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Livingston 22063
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 12 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 26 I ▾
- Beaufort 37013
- Bertie 37015
- Brunswick 37019
- Carteret 37031
- Chowan 37041
- Columbus 37047
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Duplin 37061
- Edgecombe 37065
- Gates 37073
- Greene 37079
- Hyde 37095
- Johnston 37101
- Jones 37103
- Lenoir 37107
- Martin 37117
- Onslow 37133
- Pamlico 37137
- Pasquotank 37139
- Perquimans 37143
- Pitt 37147
- Sampson 37163
- Washington 37187
- Wayne 37191
- Wilson 37195
South Carolina view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CUCA4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3188685 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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