Crotalaria albidaB.Heyne ex Roth

WFO wfo-0000185070 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Crotalaria albida, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-11-07 / obs. 104283357
Crotalaria albida, photographed by Toby Y
fig. b Toby Y, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179104217
Crotalaria albida, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 104283326
Crotalaria albida, photographed by Toby Y
fig. d Toby Y, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179104228
Crotalaria albida, photographed by 黃美滿
fig. e 黃美滿, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169204600
Crotalaria albida, photographed by 黃美滿
fig. f 黃美滿, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169204612
Crotalaria albida, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. g 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162068141
Crotalaria albida, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. h 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162068138

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Crotalaria albida is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Tibet, Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanTibetAssamBangladeshCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPakistanPhilippinesSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamWest Himalaya Nansei-shoto
Native distribution of Crotalaria albida, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Pakistan PAK
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 45 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 6.2 °C 9.6 °C 14.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.1 °C 27.3 °C 30.4 °C
Annual rainfall 1,807 mm 3,778 mm 4,255 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 75 mm 172 mm 267 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 45 research-grade observations of Crotalaria albida that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 18 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Crotalaria albida var. albida
  • Crotalaria albida var. gengmanensis (Z.Wei & C.Y.Yang) C.Chen & J.Q.Li
  • Crotalaria albida var. kangrensis A.A.Ansari
  • Crotalaria arenaria Zoll. & Moritzi
  • Crotalaria deflexa Benth.
  • Crotalaria formosana T.Ito & Matsum.
  • Crotalaria gengmaensis Z.Wei & C.Y.Yang
  • Crotalaria henrici Hochr.
  • Crotalaria hossei Craib
  • Crotalaria leiocarpa Vogel
  • Crotalaria linifolia Willd.
  • Crotalaria montana Roxb.
  • Crotalaria parva Graham
  • Crotalaria pseudohenrici Hochr.
  • Crotalaria pseudohenricii Hochr.
  • Crotalaria punctata Graham
  • Crotalaria scoparia Wall.
  • Crotalaria tecta sensu Trimen non Roth

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.