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§1 Plant — species · Solanaceae
Lycium barbarum L.
vernacular matrimony vine
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Vine
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Solanaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Lycium
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§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.
§4Montana distribution
Recorded in 28 of 56 Montana counties.
Introduced · 28 counties
- Big Horn 30003
- Broadwater 30007
- Cascade 30013
- Dawson 30021
- Deer Lodge 30023
- Fallon 30025
- Fergus 30027
- Gallatin 30031
- Hill 30041
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Liberty 30051
- Madison 30057
- Missoula 30063
- Musselshell 30065
- Park 30067
- Pondera 30073
- Powder River 30075
- Powell 30077
- Prairie 30079
- Ravalli 30081
- Roosevelt 30085
- Sheridan 30091
- Silver Bow 30093
- Teton 30099
- Toole 30101
- Valley 30105
- Wibaux 30109
- Yellowstone 30111
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LYBA4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2928835 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-25
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