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§1 Plant

Crotalaria pallida Aiton

vernacular smooth rattlebox — species · Fabaceae


USDA
CRPA10
GBIF
8260433
Rank
species
smooth rattlebox (Crotalaria pallida)
Platephotograph · Bob PetersonCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Subshrub
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Fabaceae Lindl.
Genus
Crotalaria
§2a

Native status, by region

  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
  • VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 94 counties across 6 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 94 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 94 counties across 6 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 5 I
Florida view state ↗ 41 I
Georgia view state ↗ 10 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 20 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 16 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/CRPA10 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/8260433 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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