Chickpea Milkvetch==Locoweed Astragalus cicer  Fabaceae (Legume, Pea or Bean Family)  Home   Plant Index   Photo Details

Photo Details Photos of Astragalus cicer at Butterfield Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah Characteristics Non-native perennial grows to three or four feet tall with eight inch long fronds  with 15 to 30 leaflets. Ten to thirty creamy  colored, 1/2 inch flowers are in clusters. Astragalus cicer is host plant to many butterfly larvae.  For photos and other information on these butterflies, click on Colias meadii - Mead's Sulphur Colias alexandra edwardsi - Alexandra Sulphur (ssp.edwardsi) Colias christina kluanensis - Christina Sulphur (ssp. klueanensis) Colias occidentalis pseudochristina - Western Sulphur Colias boothi thula==Colias tuche - Booth's Sulphur Back to Top