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§1 Plant

Youngia japonica (L.) DC.

vernacular Oriental false hawksbeard — species · Asteraceae


USDA
YOJA
GBIF
5387974
Rank
species
Oriental false hawksbeard (Youngia japonica)
Platephotograph · Tom AustinCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Genus
Youngia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
  • VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 141 counties across 14 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 141 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 141 counties across 14 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 3 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 5 I
Florida view state ↗ 39 I
Georgia view state ↗ 9 I
Hawaii view state ↗ 4 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 48 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 I
New York view state ↗ 1 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I
Ohio view state ↗ 1 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I
Texas view state ↗ 11 I
Virginia view state ↗ 13 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/YOJA ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/5387974 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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