Index / Search / Washingtonia filifera
§1 Plant
Washingtonia filifera (Linden ex André) H. Wendl.
vernacular California fan palm — species · Arecaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Arecaceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Washingtonia
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
County-level range
· 9 counties across 3 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 9 counties across 3 states/territories.
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/WAFI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5294589 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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