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Mimosa nuttallii; photograph Eric Hunt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAEric Hunt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Mimosa nuttallii (Raspail) B.L.Turner

Fabaceae · Colorado, Illinois +12

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Mimosa nuttallii, photograph sonnia hill, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMimosa nuttallii, photograph Wiley.andrew.r, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons 3 photographs ›

Summary

Mimosa nuttallii, the Nuttall's sensitive-briar, catclaw brier, or sensitive brier, is an herbaceous perennial legume in the subfamily Mimosoideae native to the central United States. It has a trailing semi-woody vine covered with small recurved prickles that can be painful to bare skin.

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About the genus · Mimosa

Mimosa is a genus of about 600 species of herbs and shrubs, in the mimosoid clade of the legume family Fabaceae. Species are native to the Americas, from North Dakota to northern Argentina, and to eastern Africa as well as the Indian subcontinent and Indochina. The generic name is derived from the Greek word μῖμος (mimos), 'actor' or 'mime', and the feminine suffix -osa, 'resembling', suggesting its 'sensitive leaves' which seem to 'mimic conscious life'.

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Cultivation

Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so no sheet is derived.

Climate across the habitat

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Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Records not checked: GBIF's records were not asked, as said under the name.
NativeColorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Michigan, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana · introduced: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“perennial or subshrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedGBIF's records not checked, as said under the name: so there are no points on the map, no map marker and no climate across the range; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that no record exists.

Photographs

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Photographs: sonnia hill, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Wiley.andrew.r, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.

Other Mimosa 27 in the reference

Mimosa aculeaticarpa Mimosa aculeaticarpa Catclaw mimosa Photo: CC BY, Aarón Misael Carpio DávilaMimosa albida Mimosa albida White mimosa Photo: CC0, author not statedMimosa benthamii Mimosa benthamii Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, José Javier Barrios FloresMimosa bimucronata Mimosa bimucronata Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, angryphycoMimosa biuncifera Mimosa biuncifera Catclaw Mimosa Photo: CC BY, Jo RobertsMimosa borealis Mimosa borealis Fragrant mimosa Photo: CC BY, RachelMimosa caesalpiniifolia Mimosa caesalpiniifolia Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Paulo NogueiraMimosa candollei Mimosa candollei Fourvalve mimosa Photo: CC BY, Alexis López HernándezMimosa diplotricha Mimosa diplotricha Giant sensitive plant Photo: CC BY, 祐Mimosa distachya Mimosa distachya Mexican mimosa Photo: CC BY, Abraham Sánchez RomeroMimosa dysocarpa Mimosa dysocarpa Velvetpod mimosa Photo: CC BY, John ThomlinsonMimosa farinosa Mimosa farinosa Fabaceae Photo: CC0, Hugo Hulsberg all 28 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Schrankia mimosoides; Leptoglottis nuttallii; Schrankia nuttallii; Leptoglottis mimosoides; Mimosa quadrivalvis var. nuttallii. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Fabaceae
Described by
(Raspail) B.L.Turner
Native to
Colorado, Illinois, Iowa +11
Records
not checked · GBIF's records were not asked: the page has no GBIF key

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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Mimosa nuttallii (Raspail) B.L.Turner (plant_name_id 2373621), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
Habitat climate climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from them
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 979524-1, POWO 979524-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

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