Index / Search / Vaccaria hispanica
§1 Plant
Vaccaria hispanica (Mill.) Rauschert
vernacular cow soapwort — species · Caryophyllaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Vaccaria
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 409 counties across 40 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 409 counties across 40 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
California view state ↗ 18 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 7 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 25 I ▾
- Carroll 17015
- Champaign 17019
- Christian 17021
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- DuPage 17043
- Hancock 17067
- Henderson 17071
- Jackson 17077
- Jersey 17083
- Jo Daviess 17085
- Kane 17089
- Kankakee 17091
- Kendall 17093
- Knox 17095
- Macoupin 17117
- McHenry 17111
- McLean 17113
- Menard 17129
- Ogle 17141
- Peoria 17143
- Sangamon 17167
- St. Clair 17163
- Will 17197
- Winnebago 17201
Indiana view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 21 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 42 I ▾
- Blaine 30005
- Carbon 30009
- Carter 30011
- Cascade 30013
- Chouteau 30015
- Custer 30017
- Daniels 30019
- Dawson 30021
- Fallon 30025
- Fergus 30027
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Garfield 30033
- Glacier 30035
- Golden Valley 30037
- Granite 30039
- Jefferson 30043
- Lake 30047
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Liberty 30051
- Lincoln 30053
- Madison 30057
- Meagher 30059
- Missoula 30063
- Musselshell 30065
- Park 30067
- Petroleum 30069
- Pondera 30073
- Powder River 30075
- Powell 30077
- Prairie 30079
- Ravalli 30081
- Richland 30083
- Roosevelt 30085
- Sanders 30089
- Sheridan 30091
- Stillwater 30095
- Teton 30099
- Toole 30101
- Valley 30105
- Wibaux 30109
- Yellowstone 30111
Nebraska view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 4 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 4 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 23 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Chemung 36015
- Columbia 36021
- Erie 36029
- Kings 36047
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Oswego 36075
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Ulster 36111
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
North Dakota view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 24 I ▾
- Baker 41001
- Columbia 41009
- Crook 41013
- Curry 41015
- Douglas 41019
- Grant 41023
- Harney 41025
- Jackson 41029
- Jefferson 41031
- Josephine 41033
- Klamath 41035
- Lake 41037
- Lane 41039
- Linn 41043
- Malheur 41045
- Marion 41047
- Morrow 41049
- Multnomah 41051
- Sherman 41055
- Umatilla 41059
- Union 41061
- Wallowa 41063
- Washington 41067
- Wheeler 41069
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 21 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Beaver 42007
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cameron 42023
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Franklin 42055
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lehigh 42077
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Somerset 42111
- Venango 42121
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Utah view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 18 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 10 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/VAHI2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8091998 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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