Astragalus mohavensis

Mohave locoweed

Family: Fabaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Mohave locoweed is a California native perennial herb found in desert and desert mountain regions, growing in arid habitats. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces pink-purple flowers with banner petals that curve back at nearly 45 degrees, creating an elegant arc. Growing with ascending stems 5 to 35 centimeters tall and forming tufted or widely branched clusters, it has a distinctly gray or silvery appearance from fine strigose hairs. Its compound leaves are 2 to 12.5 centimeters long with 3 to 11 leaflets that are ovate to rounded, typically with blunt tips. The fruit is a stiff-leathery, reflexed pod 13 to 32 millimeters long, densely covered in minute strigose hairs.

California counties: San Bernardino, Inyo, Riverside, Kern

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