Index / Search / Astragalus lentiginosus
§1 Plant
Astragalus lentiginosus Douglas ex Hook.
vernacular freckled milkvetch — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Shrub, Subshrub
- Duration
- Annual, Biennial, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Astragalus
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 167 counties across 12 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -28 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 100 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–16 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.7–7.4
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 1.4 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- Medium
- Toxicity
- Slight
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 140,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 167 counties across 12 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 11 N ▾
California view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Alpine 06003
- Fresno 06019
- Imperial 06025
- Inyo 06027
- Kern 06029
- Kings 06031
- Lake 06033
- Lassen 06035
- Los Angeles 06037
- Madera 06039
- Modoc 06049
- Mono 06051
- Monterey 06053
- Nevada 06057
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- Riverside 06065
- San Benito 06069
- San Bernardino 06071
- San Diego 06073
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Shasta 06089
- Sierra 06091
- Siskiyou 06093
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
- Ventura 06111
Colorado view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Ada 16001
- Bannock 16005
- Bear Lake 16007
- Bingham 16011
- Blaine 16013
- Bonneville 16019
- Butte 16023
- Canyon 16027
- Caribou 16029
- Cassia 16031
- Clark 16033
- Custer 16037
- Elmore 16039
- Fremont 16043
- Gem 16045
- Gooding 16047
- Jefferson 16051
- Lemhi 16059
- Lincoln 16063
- Minidoka 16067
- Oneida 16071
- Owyhee 16073
- Payette 16075
- Power 16077
- Twin Falls 16083
- Washington 16087
Montana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 16 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 22 N ▾
Washington view state ↗ 12 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ASLE8 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5344810 ↗Record version
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