Index / Search / Abutilon theophrasti
§1 Plant
Abutilon theophrasti Medik.
vernacular velvetleaf — species · Malvaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Malvaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Abutilon
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 25 counties across 2 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 25 counties across 2 states/territories.
Montana view state ↗ 24 I ▾
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Broadwater 30007
- Carbon 30009
- Custer 30017
- Dawson 30021
- Fallon 30025
- Fergus 30027
- Judith Basin 30045
- Liberty 30051
- McCone 30055
- Mineral 30061
- Missoula 30063
- Musselshell 30065
- Phillips 30071
- Pondera 30073
- Prairie 30079
- Roosevelt 30085
- Sanders 30089
- Stillwater 30095
- Teton 30099
- Toole 30101
- Wibaux 30109
- Yellowstone 30111
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ABTH ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3152614 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-25
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