Astragalus inversus

Susanville milkvetch, Susanville Milkvetch, Susanville milk-vetch, Susanville milk-vetch

Family: Fabaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Susanville milkvetch is a California native perennial found in eastern California Ranges and Modoc Plateau in dry sagebrush scrub and pine forest at elevations of 950 to 1,950 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces distinctive red-pink flowers with white-tipped banners and buff-yellow wings, creating a delicate color contrast. Growing with prostrate to spreading wiry stems 20 to 50 centimeters long, the plant appears slender and sparsely leafy. Its leaves feature 5 to 11 narrow, arched leaflets spaced along stems, each leaflet 4 to 20 millimeters long. The fruit is a pendulous, papery pod 20 to 35 millimeters long, hanging elegantly from the plant's delicate branches.

Habitat: dry soils, sagebrush scrub, pine forest

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 950-1950 m

Bioregions: e CaRH, MP.

California counties: Lassen, Shasta, Siskiyou, Modoc

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