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§1 Plant
Mimosa latidens (Small) B.L. Turner
vernacular Kairn's sensitive-briar — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Mimosa
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 48 counties across 2 states/territories§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 48 counties across 2 states/territories.
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 47 N ▾
- Aransas 48007
- Atascosa 48013
- Austin 48015
- Bastrop 48021
- Bee 48025
- Bexar 48029
- Brazos 48041
- Brooks 48047
- Burleson 48051
- Caldwell 48055
- Calhoun 48057
- Cameron 48061
- Chambers 48071
- DeWitt 48123
- Dimmit 48127
- Duval 48131
- Fort Bend 48157
- Frio 48163
- Goliad 48175
- Grimes 48185
- Hardin 48199
- Harris 48201
- Hidalgo 48215
- Jackson 48239
- Jim Hogg 48247
- Jim Wells 48249
- Karnes 48255
- Kenedy 48261
- Kleberg 48273
- Lavaca 48285
- Live Oak 48297
- McMullen 48311
- Medina 48325
- Milam 48331
- Montgomery 48339
- Nueces 48355
- Refugio 48391
- Robertson 48395
- San Patricio 48409
- Starr 48427
- Waller 48473
- Washington 48477
- Webb 48479
- Willacy 48489
- Wilson 48493
- Zapata 48505
- Zavala 48507
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MILA15 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3795105 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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