Index / Search / Rigiopappus leptocladus
§1 Plant
Rigiopappus leptocladus A. Gray
vernacular wireweed — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Rigiopappus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 74 counties across 5 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 74 counties across 5 states/territories.
California view state ↗ 43 N ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Amador 06005
- Butte 06007
- Calaveras 06009
- Colusa 06011
- Contra Costa 06013
- El Dorado 06017
- Fresno 06019
- Glenn 06021
- Humboldt 06023
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Lassen 06035
- Los Angeles 06037
- Madera 06039
- Marin 06041
- Mariposa 06043
- Mendocino 06045
- Merced 06047
- Modoc 06049
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- Nevada 06057
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- San Benito 06069
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- San Mateo 06081
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Shasta 06089
- Sierra 06091
- Siskiyou 06093
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Stanislaus 06099
- Sutter 06101
- Tehama 06103
- Trinity 06105
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
- Ventura 06111
- Yolo 06113
Nevada view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Washington view state ↗ 5 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RILE2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3116900 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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