Uraria crinita(L.) Desv. ex DC.

Asian foxtail

WFO wfo-0000192244 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Uraria crinita, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. a Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / 2021-09-25 / obs. 159770171
Uraria crinita, photographed by 葉子
fig. b 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173577343
Uraria crinita, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. c Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 154547722
Uraria crinita, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. d Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 149763307
Uraria crinita, photographed by 葉子
fig. e 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 97747095
Uraria crinita, photographed by 葉子
fig. f 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 90193544
Uraria crinita, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. g Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75299989
Uraria crinita, photographed by lansan
fig. h lansan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50938901

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Uraria crinita is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Himalaya, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Caroline Is. China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanAssamBangladeshCambodiaEast HimalayaJawaLaosMalayaMyanmarSumateraThailandVietnam Nansei-shotoAndaman Is.Caroline Is.
Native distribution of Uraria crinita, 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
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC

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.

Flowering 73 in flower of 83 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Uraria crinita observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 73 of 83 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 13 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.

  • Doodia crinita (L.) Roxb.
  • Hedysarum comosum Vahl
  • Hedysarum crinitum L.
  • Hedysarum lanseum Noronha
  • Onobrychis comosa Spreng.
  • Onobrychis crinita (L.) Spreng.
  • Uraria comosa Span.
  • Uraria comosa DC.
  • Uraria crinita var. macrostachya (Wall.) Schindl.
  • Uraria crinita var. macrostachya Wall.
  • Uraria macrostachya Wall.
  • Uraria macrostachya Wall.
  • Uraria picta Wight

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol URCR2. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.