North America Non-native Plant

Colombian Coca

Botanical name: Erythroxylum novogranatense var. novogranatense

USDA symbol: ERNON

Native status: Not native but doesn't reproduce and persist in the wild

Colombian Coca

Classification

Group

Dicot

Kingdom

Plantae - Plants

Subkingdom

Tracheobionta - Vascular plants

Superdivision

Spermatophyta - Seed plants

Division

Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants

Subdivision
Class

Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons

Subclass

Rosidae

Order

Linales

Family

Erythroxylaceae Kunth - Coca family

Genus

Erythroxylum P. Br. - coca

Species

Erythroxylum novogranatense (Morris) Hieron. - Colombian coca

Plant data source: USDA, NRCS 2025. The PLANTS Database. https://plants.usda.gov,. 2/25/2025. National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC USA