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§1 Plant

Scandix pecten-veneris L.

vernacular shepherdsneedle — species · Apiaceae


USDA
SCPE
GBIF
3034233
Rank
species
shepherdsneedle (Scandix pecten-veneris)
Platephotograph · СергейCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Apiaceae Lindl.
Genus
Scandix
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 70 counties across 16 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 70 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 70 counties across 16 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 7 I
Arizona view state ↗ 1 I
California view state ↗ 23 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Florida view state ↗ 2 I
Georgia view state ↗ 3 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 I
New York view state ↗ 1 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 5 I
Ohio view state ↗ 1 I
Oregon view state ↗ 13 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 4 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I
Texas view state ↗ 4 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/SCPE ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/3034233 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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