Index / Search / Desmanthus acuminatus
§1 Plant
Desmanthus acuminatus Benth.
vernacular wild tantan — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Shrub, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Desmanthus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 26 counties across 1 state§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 26 counties across 1 state.
Texas view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Brazos 48041
- Burnet 48053
- Caldwell 48055
- Calhoun 48057
- Chambers 48071
- Comal 48091
- DeWitt 48123
- Fayette 48149
- Gillespie 48171
- Goliad 48175
- Hamilton 48193
- Harris 48201
- Hays 48209
- Jackson 48239
- Lavaca 48285
- Llano 48299
- Matagorda 48321
- McLennan 48309
- Robertson 48395
- Travis 48453
- Victoria 48469
- Waller 48473
- Williamson 48491
- Wilson 48493
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DEAC3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5360083 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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