The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Sophora leachiana
Also called Western Necklace Pod
Western necklacepod is a small perennial legume native only to a few counties in the Siskiyou Mountains of southwestern Oregon, where it grows on sunny, disturbed slopes. It is rarely grown in gardens, and its key need is full sun with good drainage.
Sophora leachiana, commonly known as the western necklacepod or as western sophora, is a perennial plant in the family Fabaceae endemic to the Siskiyou Mountains of southwestern Oregon. It is an early successional species whose ecology is closely linked to fire.
Sophora leachiana has a very narrow geographic distribution, occurring only in Josephine and Curry counties in southwestern Oregon. It grows in mixed-conifer forests in the Siskiyou Mountains, mostly on south or west–facing slopes or on flats by perennial creeks. In 1978, Cheryl Crowder surveyed the thirteen known populations of S. leachiana, which varied in elevation between 335 and 658 m, and all of which showed signs of heavy disturbance, either by fire or human activity. These sites were mostly exposed to full sun, but a few occurred in partial shade.
Sophora alopecuroides · Sophora cassioides · Coastal Kōwhai · Mamani · Sophora fernandeziana · Shrubby sophora · Brush Sophora · Waitakere Kowhai · Godley’s Kōwhai · Lord Howe Kowhai · Sophora longicarinata · Sophora macrocarpa
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sophora leachiana 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.
