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§1 Plant

Hedysarum boreale Nutt. ssp. mackenziei (Richardson) S.L. Welsh

vernacular northern sweetvetch — subspecies · Fabaceae

USDA
HEBOM
GBIF
6372449
Rank
subspecies
northern sweetvetch (Hedysarum boreale ssp. mackenziei)
Platephotograph · William (Go Expanse)CC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Native
  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 16 counties across 3 states/territories
Legend Native · 16 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 16 counties across 3 states/territories.

Alaska view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Washington view state ↗ 1 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/HEBOM ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/6372449 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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