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§1 Plant

Crotalaria rotundifolia Walter ex J.F. Gmel.

vernacular rabbitbells — species · Fabaceae


USDA
CRRO5
GBIF
2942940
Rank
species
rabbitbells (Crotalaria rotundifolia)
Platephotograph · Bob PetersonCC BY-NC-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • PR Puerto Rico Native
§2b

County-level range

· 237 counties across 9 states/territories
Legend Native · 237 Introduced · 0 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 237 counties across 9 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 38 N
Florida view state ↗ 65 N
Georgia view state ↗ 49 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 5 N
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 18 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 31 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 27 N
Virginia view state ↗ 3 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/CRRO5 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2942940 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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