Index / Search / Crotalaria purshii
§1 Plant
Crotalaria purshii DC.
vernacular Pursh's rattlebox — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Crotalaria
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 144 counties across 11 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 144 counties across 11 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Bacon 13005
- Baker 13007
- Berrien 13019
- Brooks 13027
- Bulloch 13031
- Camden 13039
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Cobb 13067
- Coffee 13069
- Colquitt 13071
- Dodge 13091
- Early 13099
- Effingham 13103
- Habersham 13137
- Houston 13153
- Jackson 13157
- Lee 13177
- Lowndes 13185
- Madison 13195
- McIntosh 13191
- Pierce 13229
- Tattnall 13267
- Thomas 13275
- Wayne 13305
- Wilcox 13315
- Worth 13321
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 13 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Beaufort 37013
- Bladen 37017
- Brunswick 37019
- Burke 37023
- Carteret 37031
- Chowan 37041
- Columbus 37047
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Duplin 37061
- Edgecombe 37065
- Gates 37073
- Halifax 37083
- Harnett 37085
- Hertford 37091
- Hoke 37093
- Johnston 37101
- Lee 37105
- Lenoir 37107
- Moore 37125
- Nash 37127
- New Hanover 37129
- Northampton 37131
- Onslow 37133
- Pamlico 37137
- Pender 37141
- Pitt 37147
- Richmond 37153
- Robeson 37155
- Sampson 37163
- Scotland 37165
- Wake 37183
- Washington 37187
- Wayne 37191
- Wilson 37195
South Carolina view state ↗ 20 N ▾
- Bamberg 45009
- Barnwell 45011
- Beaufort 45013
- Berkeley 45015
- Calhoun 45017
- Charleston 45019
- Clarendon 45027
- Colleton 45029
- Darlington 45031
- Dorchester 45035
- Florence 45041
- Georgetown 45043
- Hampton 45049
- Horry 45051
- Kershaw 45055
- Lee 45061
- Lexington 45063
- Orangeburg 45075
- Pickens 45077
- Williamsburg 45089
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CRPU5 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2942349 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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