Family | FABACEAE |
Genus species | Astragalus peterae H.T.Tsai & T.T.Yu sect. Oroboidei |
Bibliography | Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol., Bot. 7: 27 (1936) |
Native Range | Central Asia to n. & c. China and Mongolia |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | grassland |
Altitude | 2700-4100m |
Description | leaves 5-9cm long, thinly petiolate, leaflets 7-9 pairs, elliptic, obtuse or emarginate, adaxially glabrous, abaxially sparsely white hirsute, raceme many flowered |
Size | 10-35cm |
Color | blue, purple |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
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 |
Synonyms | Astragalus abramovii Gotsch. Astragalus brachytropis f. giganteus Lipsky Astragalus brachytropis f. pusillus Lipsky Astragalus pseudobrachytropis Gontsch. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan) 36 China (CHC China South-Central, CHI Inner Mongolia, CHN China North-Central, CHQ Qinghai, CHT Tibet, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia |