Astragalus didymocarpus

Two-seeded milkvetch, Two-Seeded Milkvetch

Family: Fabaceae · Type: annual · Native

Two-seeded milkvetch is a California native annual herb found in various bioregions with open grasslands and dry slopes from low to moderate elevations. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces white to purple-tinged flowers in small dense clusters with 5 to 30 blossoms. Growing with slender, prostrate to nearly erect stems 5 to 45 centimeters tall and covered in fine gray hairs, it has a delicate, spreading form. Its compound leaves feature 9 to 17 small linear to oblanceolate leaflets, each 2 to 14 millimeters long with slightly notched tips. The fruit is a small, spherical pod about 2 to 4 millimeters long, wrinkled and drying to a stiff papery texture.

California counties: Kern, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, Santa Barbara, Inyo, San Diego, Ventura, Tulare, Fresno, San Luis Obispo, San Joaquin, San Benito, Kings, Merced, Madera, Contra Costa, Yolo, Alameda, Stanislaus, Sutter, Monterey, Napa

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.