Native to Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia; introduced into Austria, Azores, Cuba, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, India, Jawa, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Norway, Queensland, Taiwan, Western Australia (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
United States, Florida, St Lucie
27.494722, -80.342778
Location Remarks
St. Lucie, N of Fort Pierce on Highway 1
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Helianthus
Specific Epithet
debilis
Authorship
Nutt.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 0.3
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
IUCN Red List
EDGE score
0.0
Global rank
#324,769 of 335,497
Top 97%
Extinction probability
6%