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Created 10/15/2023

Family Fabaceae

HAWAII - NATURALIZED

Crotalaria retusa


Hakalau, Hawai'i

Kilauea, Hawai'i
   
   
   

RATTLEWEED

Annual herb weedy in dry disturbed lowlands of the major Hawaiian Islands.  Finely pubescent with small recurved bracts on rachis, Crotalaria spectabilis is glabrous with large bracts.  Poisonous to mammals.  Native from East Africa to China and New Guinea.