§1 Plant
Ficus carica L.
vernacular edible fig — species · Moraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Moraceae Gaudich.
- Genus
- Ficus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 93 counties across 16 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 93 counties across 16 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 I ▾
California view state ↗ 19 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 34 I ▾
- Allen 22003
- Bienville 22013
- Caddo 22017
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- De Soto 22031
- East Carroll 22035
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- West Carroll 22123
- Winn 22127
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 5 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 2 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 4 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/FICA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5361909 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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