Index / Search / Elaeagnus pungens
§1 Plant
Elaeagnus pungens Thunb.
vernacular thorny olive — species · Elaeagnaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Elaeagnaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Elaeagnus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 68 counties across 14 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 68 counties across 14 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 6 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 3 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ELPU2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3039270 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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