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§1 Plant

Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr.

vernacular kudzu — species · Fabaceae


USDA
PUMO
GBIF
2977636
Rank
species
kudzu (Pueraria montana)
Platephotograph · 方伊琳(阿鈣)CC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Vine
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Fabaceae Lindl.
Genus
Pueraria
§2a

Native status, by region

  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 528 counties across 26 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 528 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 528 counties across 26 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 61 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 50 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Florida view state ↗ 15 I
Georgia view state ↗ 30 I
Hawaii view state ↗ 4 I
Illinois view state ↗ 8 I
Indiana view state ↗ 3 I
Kansas view state ↗ 1 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 45 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 40 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 25 I
Missouri view state ↗ 10 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 5 I
New York view state ↗ 9 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 32 I
Ohio view state ↗ 8 I
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 I
Oregon view state ↗ 3 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 18 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 25 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 34 I
Texas view state ↗ 18 I
Virginia view state ↗ 68 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 11 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/PUMO ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2977636 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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