Florida Milkvetch

Astragalus obcordatus

Found in longleaf pine sandhills. FloraQuest, phone app (app page) What its natural habitat tells you

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Native to Alabama. How scores work Is it native here?

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Rare or protected plant. Specialist conservation planting; excluded from routine garden suggestions. Plant caution source

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At a glance

Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom

This plant is missing most of its facts, so Quercus is looking them up in old botany books.

Recorded in 1 Alabama county.

Habitats

Sandhills.

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Ecological relationships

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What these records mean

13CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including AL

Genus host records with ranges including AL · Astragalus

Abaeis nicippeSleepy Orange, Sleepy Yellow, Erratic Orange
Cecropterus bathyllusSouthern Cloudywing
Cecropterus pyladesNorthern Cloudywing
Colias eurythemeOrange Sulphur, Alfalfa Butterfly
Colias philodiceClouded Sulphur, Clover Butterfly
Cupido comyntasEastern Tailed-Blue
Dicymolomia julianalisJulia's Dicymolomia
Digrammia eremiataThree-Lined Angle
Epargyreus clarusSilver-Spotted Skipper
Gesta baptisiaeWild Indigo Duskywing, Baptisia Duskywing

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Glaucopsyche lygdamusSilvery Blue
Strymon melinusGray Hairstreak
Vanessa carduiPainted Lady, Cosmopolite

Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)

7BeesSoutheastern regional records

Southeastern regional records · Astragalus

Individual names are not available yet.

Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0

1Specialist beesPollen specialists

Pollen specialists · Astragalus

Anthidium clypeodentatum

Smith, Bachelder, Russell, Morales, Mosher & Seltmann 2024, Bee-Specialization-Modeling v0.6.1 (specialist host table compiled from J. Fowler's pollen specialist bee lists), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0

4BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim

Recorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim · Astragalus

Alectoris chukarChukar
Centrocercus urophasianusGreater Sage-Grouse
Meleagris gallopavoWild Turkey
Ortalis vetulaPlain Chachalaca

Hurlbert, Olsen, Sawyer & Winner 2021, Avian Diet Database, Scientific Data 8: 260 (CC0)

Direct food only: birds recorded eating this genus across North America. Caterpillars on host plants also feed nesting birds. NC Native Plant Society: butterfly gardening

No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family: Fabaceae

Conservation status

Alabama rank	S1
Global rank	Not available
AL status	Not verified
Federal status	Not verified

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