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§1 Plant
Isatis tinctoria L.
vernacular Dyer's woad — species · Brassicaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Biennial, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Brassicaceae Burnett
- Genus
- Isatis
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 126 counties across 15 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 126 counties across 15 states/territories.
California view state ↗ 25 I ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Amador 06005
- Butte 06007
- Calaveras 06009
- Colusa 06011
- Del Norte 06015
- Glenn 06021
- Humboldt 06023
- Lake 06033
- Lassen 06035
- Marin 06041
- Mendocino 06045
- Modoc 06049
- Nevada 06057
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- Sacramento 06067
- Shasta 06089
- Sierra 06091
- Siskiyou 06093
- Tehama 06103
- Trinity 06105
- Tuolumne 06109
- Yolo 06113
- Yuba 06115
Colorado view state ↗ 2 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 29 I ▾
- Ada 16001
- Adams 16003
- Bannock 16005
- Bear Lake 16007
- Bingham 16011
- Blaine 16013
- Boise 16015
- Bonner 16017
- Bonneville 16019
- Camas 16025
- Canyon 16027
- Caribou 16029
- Cassia 16031
- Clark 16033
- Clearwater 16035
- Custer 16037
- Franklin 16041
- Fremont 16043
- Idaho 16049
- Jefferson 16051
- Latah 16057
- Lemhi 16059
- Lincoln 16063
- Madison 16065
- Minidoka 16067
- Oneida 16071
- Power 16077
- Teton 16081
- Twin Falls 16083
Illinois view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Utah view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 1 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ISTI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5374118 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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