Index / Search / Astragalus mollissimus
§1 Plant
Astragalus mollissimus Torr.
vernacular woolly locoweed — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Astragalus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 214 counties across 10 states/territories§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.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 214 counties across 10 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 22 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 47 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Cheyenne 20023
- Clark 20025
- Comanche 20033
- Decatur 20039
- Edwards 20047
- Ellis 20051
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Gove 20063
- Graham 20065
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Greeley 20071
- Hamilton 20075
- Harper 20077
- Haskell 20081
- Hodgeman 20083
- Kearny 20093
- Kingman 20095
- Kiowa 20097
- Lane 20101
- Logan 20109
- Meade 20119
- Morton 20129
- Ness 20135
- Norton 20137
- Osborne 20141
- Pawnee 20145
- Phillips 20147
- Pratt 20151
- Rawlins 20153
- Rooks 20163
- Rush 20165
- Russell 20167
- Scott 20171
- Seward 20175
- Sheridan 20179
- Sherman 20181
- Smith 20183
- Stafford 20185
- Stanton 20187
- Stevens 20189
- Thomas 20193
- Trego 20195
- Wallace 20199
- Wichita 20203
Nebraska view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Catron 35003
- Chaves 35005
- Cibola 35006
- Colfax 35007
- Curry 35009
- De Baca 35011
- Dona Ana 35013
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Guadalupe 35019
- Harding 35021
- Hidalgo 35023
- Lea 35025
- Lincoln 35027
- Luna 35029
- McKinley 35031
- Mora 35033
- Otero 35035
- Quay 35037
- Rio Arriba 35039
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Juan 35045
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Torrance 35057
- Union 35059
- Valencia 35061
Oklahoma view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 50 N ▾
- Andrews 48003
- Armstrong 48011
- Bailey 48017
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Carson 48065
- Castro 48069
- Childress 48075
- Cottle 48101
- Crockett 48105
- Culberson 48109
- Dallam 48111
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Dickens 48125
- Ellis 48139
- Fisher 48151
- Floyd 48153
- Garza 48169
- Hall 48191
- Hardeman 48197
- Hartley 48205
- Hemphill 48211
- Howard 48227
- Hudspeth 48229
- Hutchinson 48233
- Irion 48235
- Jackson 48239
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Lamb 48279
- Lipscomb 48295
- Lubbock 48303
- Martin 48317
- Mitchell 48335
- Motley 48345
- Nolan 48353
- Parmer 48369
- Pecos 48371
- Potter 48375
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Reagan 48383
- Reeves 48389
- Schleicher 48413
- Scurry 48415
- Sterling 48431
- Swisher 48437
- Terrell 48443
- Terry 48445
- Upton 48461
- Yoakum 48501
Utah view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ASMO7 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5342761 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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