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Astragalus sparsiflorus
Front Range milkvetch is a rare, low-growing annual or short-lived perennial legume endemic to Colorado's Front Range, growing as trailing stems with white flowers. It needs sunny, well-drained, lightly disturbed ground to reproduce, and it is seldom grown outside its native range.
Astragalus sparsiflorus, the Front Range milkvetch, is a rare species of plant that grows in the Front Range mountains in Colorado.
Front Range milkvetch is a Colorado endemic that grows mostly east of the Continental Divide in Custer, Fremont, El Paso, Teller, Park, Douglas, Jefferson, Denver, and Boulder counties. It grows west of the divide in just Grand County.
Astragalus aboriginum · Rogue River milkvetch · Sharp-leaved Milk Vetch · Sharpkeel milkvetch · Humboldt County milkvetch · Purple milkvetch · Cushenbury milkvetch · Astragalus alopecurus · Alpine milkvetch · Crescent milkvetch · Hermit Milkvetch · Anderson's milkvetch
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Astragalus sparsiflorus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
