Astragalus canadensis - Wikipedia
Astragalus canadensis is a common and widespread member of the milkvetch genus in the legume family, known commonly as Canadian milkvetch. The plant is found throughout Canada and the United States in many habitats including wetlands, woodlands, and prairies.
Astragalus canadensis (Canada Milkvetch) - Minnesota …
Flowers are in densely packed spike-like clusters up to 6 inches long at the end of a long stalk arising from a leaf axil. Individual flowers are about ½ inch long, a typical pea shape but elongated. The color ranges from pale yellow to greenish to creamy white. One plant has several to many spikes on many branching stems.
Astragalus canadensis - Plant Finder - Missouri Botanical Garden
Astragalus canadensis, commonly called Canadian milkvetch, is a herbaceous perennial native to a variety of habitats throughout the United States and Canada including upland prairies, bluff ledges, forests, stream banks, railroad right-of-ways, roadsides, and pastures. Mature plants will reach up to 4' tall with a 2' spread.
Astragalus canadensis - North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant …
Originating in the Lonetree Wildlife Management Area in South Dakota, this native wildflowers bloom season runs from summer into early fall. Its habitat includes prairies, savannas, thickets, woodland borders, or along a river shore where it tends to colonize.
Canada milkvetch is a native legume that is widely distributed across all but the extreme southeastern and southwestern United States. Plants are found naturally in moist prairies, open woodlands, roadsides, thickets, and streambanks. Plants tend to colonize in these areas.
Canadian milkvetch (Astragalus canadensis) is a smooth, stout-stemmed plant that grows up to five feet tall (Ladd 1995). The leaves are smooth; elliptic to oblong, with thirteen to thirty-one stalked leaflets that are one to two inches long.
Astragalus canadensis - USDA Plants Database
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Canada Milkvetch (Astragalus canadensis) - Illinois Wildflowers
Canada Milkvetch has a distinctive appearance on account of its size (up to 3½' tall) and abundant creamy flowers (about 75 per raceme). Some pale-flowered vetches are superficially similar in appearance, such as Vicia carolina (Carolina Vetch).
Astragalus canadensis — Canada milk-vetch - Go Botany
Canada milk-vetch is distributed across most of North America. In New England it is very rare, mostly being confined to the Lake Champlain region, on beaches, headlands and cliffs, over high-pH bedrock. Cliffs, balds, or ledges, shores of rivers or lakes. Non-native: introduced (intentionally or unintentionally); has become naturalized.
Astragalus canadensis (Canadian milkvetch) | Izel Native Plants
Astragalus canadensis, commonly called Canadian milkvetch, is an herbaceous perennial with an upright, somewhat rangy habit that best lends itself to naturalistic plantings. A legume (in the pea family), it sends up flowering stalks almost a foot long, bedecked wtih whorled, pea-shaped, white or cream flowers.