Astragalus preussii

Preuss' milkvetch

Family: Fabaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Preuss' milkvetch is a California native perennial herb found in alpine and subalpine habitats at high elevations in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces pink-purple flowers with banner petals 14 to 24 millimeters long that curve back approximately 40 degrees. Growing with robust, slightly erect stems 10 to 35 centimeters tall, it has a distinctive ill-scented character with nearly glabrous foliage. Its compound leaves reach 3.5 to 18 centimeters long, featuring 7 to 25 linear to rounded leaflets measuring 2 to 27 millimeters in length. The fruit is an inflated, erect or ascending pod 12 to 40 millimeters long, with a stiff-papery texture and nearly round cross-section.

California counties: San Diego, San Bernardino, Inyo, Los Angeles, Imperial

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