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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nightshades, Bindweeds, Gooseweeds, and Allies
  6. Nightshade Family
  7. Peppers and Lycianthes
  8. Peppers

genus

Peppers

Capsicum

Traits
Includes
2 native 1 introduced 3 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Chili Pepper native
  • Tabasco Pepper native
  • Aji Pepper introduced
  • Tree Pepper present
  • Locoto Pepper present
  • Wild Pepper present
  • Capsicum rabenii
  • Ulupica Pepper
  • Capsicum flexuosum

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Annual Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native peppers All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Chili Pepper Capsicum annuum caterpillars 20 food 13 flowers 27
  • Tabasco Pepper Capsicum frutescens caterpillars 12 food 3 flowers 2

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