| Family | FABACEAE |
| Genus species | Astragalus cottonii M.E.Jones |
| Bibliography | Rev. N.-Amer. Astragalus: 135 (1923) |
| Native Range | Washington |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | scree and moraines |
| Description | grey villose, leaves subsessile, 2-4cm long, leaflets 11-17 pairs, linear-elliptic to oblong, 8-16mm, raceme 7-20-flowered, lax, pod intensely ventricose, glabrous |
| Size | 10-25cm |
| Color | whitish yellow |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, sunny site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, sun |
| Propagation | scarified seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 10-13°C cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Astragalus aboriginum var. cottonii (M.E.Jones) S.L.Welsh Astragalus australis var. cottonii (M.E.Jones) S.L.Welsh Atelophragma cottonii (M.E.Jones) Rydb. |
| Territory | 7 Northern America 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (WAS Washington) |