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§1 Plant — species · Asteraceae
Sonchus arvensis L.
vernacular field sowthistle
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Sonchus
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon 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 45 of 56 Montana counties.
Introduced · 45 counties
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Blaine 30005
- Broadwater 30007
- Cascade 30013
- Chouteau 30015
- Daniels 30019
- Dawson 30021
- Fallon 30025
- Fergus 30027
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Garfield 30033
- Glacier 30035
- Golden Valley 30037
- Granite 30039
- Hill 30041
- Jefferson 30043
- Judith Basin 30045
- Lake 30047
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Lincoln 30053
- Madison 30057
- McCone 30055
- Mineral 30061
- Park 30067
- Petroleum 30069
- Phillips 30071
- Pondera 30073
- Powder River 30075
- Powell 30077
- Prairie 30079
- Ravalli 30081
- Richland 30083
- Roosevelt 30085
- Rosebud 30087
- Sanders 30089
- Sheridan 30091
- Teton 30099
- Toole 30101
- Treasure 30103
- Valley 30105
- Wheatland 30107
- Wibaux 30109
- Yellowstone 30111
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SOAR2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3105813 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-25
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