Index / Search / Paronychia virginica
§1 Plant
Paronychia virginica Spreng.
vernacular yellow nailwort — species · Caryophyllaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Paronychia
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 46 counties across 7 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 46 counties across 7 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Bosque 48035
- Caldwell 48055
- Collin 48085
- Comal 48091
- Cooke 48097
- Dallas 48113
- Denton 48121
- Ellis 48139
- Erath 48143
- Fayette 48149
- Gillespie 48171
- Grayson 48181
- Grimes 48185
- Hays 48209
- Hill 48217
- Hood 48221
- Johnson 48251
- Kendall 48259
- Kerr 48265
- McLennan 48309
- Montague 48337
- Parker 48367
- Robertson 48395
- San Augustine 48405
- Tarrant 48439
- Walker 48471
- Wise 48497
Virginia view state ↗ 4 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 5 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PAVI4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5384721 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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