Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_crotalaria_pallida
Smooth Rattlepod
Crotalaria pallida
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About Smooth Rattlepod
An ascending or erect perennial herb or subshrub with three elliptic to ovate leaflets per leaf. Long, loose terminal racemes bear many yellow pea flowers with basal lines and a prolonged, untwisted keel beak. Pods turn brown and contain numerous small brown seeds. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.
Kauaʻi evidence
Generated media is not occurrence evidence. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Crotalaria pallida
- Common names
- smooth rattlepod
- Hawaiian names
- pikakani
- Other names
- Crotalaria pallida · smooth rattlepod · pikakani
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence only.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Not yet assessed
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Shrub or subshrub; Perennial herb or subshrub; stems ascending or erect, 10–20 dm long, striate, glabrous or appressed short pubescent.
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Occupied area and vegetation cover; Mature plants and new recruits; Reproductive plants and fruiting frequency. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
- Data gaps
- Current island extent and population trend · Measured local ecological effects
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- An ascending or erect perennial herb or subshrub with three elliptic to ovate leaflets per leaf. Long, loose terminal racemes bear many yellow pea flowers with basal lines and a prolonged, untwisted keel beak. Pods turn brown and contain numerous small brown seeds. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.