| Family | FABACEAE |
| Genus species | Astragalus alpinus L. sect. Komaroviella |
| Synonyms | Astragalus grossheimianus Sosn. |
| Astragalus minimus L. ex DC. | |
| Astragalus secundus Michx. | |
| Habitat | grassland |
| Altitude | 0-3100m |
| Description | leaves 2-8cm, petiolate, leaflets 7-12 pairs, narrowly elliptic, rounded, adaxially glabrous, abaxially hirsute, raceme short, dense, 5-15-flowered, flowers 9-13mm long |
| Size | 5-15cm |
| Color | whitish violet |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | - |
| Type | tuft, fl. stem ascending |
| Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | scarified seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 10-13°C cuttings in late summer |
| Territory |
Circumpolar
Europe Northern Europe (Finland , Great Britain , Norway , Sweden ) Middle Europe (Austria , Czechoslovakia , Germany , Poland , Switzerland ) Southwestern Europe (France , Spain ) Southeastern Europe (Italy , Romania , Yugoslavia ) Eastern Europe (North European Russia , Northwest European Russia , Ukraine ) Asia-Temperate Siberia (Buryatiya , Chita , Irkutsk , Krasnoyarsk , Tuva , Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Kamchatka , Kuril Is. , Magadan , Sakhalin ) Middle Asia (Kazakhstan , Tadzhikistan , Uzbekistan ) Caucasus (North Caucasus , Transcaucasus ) China (Xinjiang ) Mongolia Asia-Tropical Indian Subcontinent (Pakistan ) Northern America Subarctic America (Aleutian Is. , Greenland , Nunavut , Northwest Territories , Yukon ) Western Canada (Alberta , British Columbia , Manitoba , Saskatchewan ) Eastern Canada (Labrador , Ontario , Québec ) Northwestern U.S.A. (Colorado , Idaho , Montana , Oregon , Washington , Wyoming ) North-Central U.S.A. (Minnesota , South Dakota , Wisconsin ) Southwestern U.S.A. (Nevada , Utah ) South-Central U.S.A. (New Mexico) |
| Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
| Comments | FABACEAE
alpinus brunetianus Fernald, Rhodora 10: 51 (1908)
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