| Family | FABACEAE |
| Genus species | Astragalus alpinus L. sect. Komaroviella |
| Bibliography | Sp. Pl. 1: 760 (1753) |
| Native Range | Subarctic and Temperate Northern Hemisphere |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
| Habitat | grassland and rocks |
| 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 | 5-20cm |
| Color | whitish violet |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | - |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | scarified seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 10-13°C cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Astragalina alpestris Bubani Astragalina alpina (L.) Bubani Astragaloides alpina (L.) Medik. Astragalus alpinus ssp. alaskanus Hultén Astragalus alpinus var. alaskanus (Hultén) Lepage Astragalus alpinus var. albiflorus Huter Astragalus alpinus f. albinus (J.Rousseau) B.Boivin Astragalus alpinus f. albovestitus Lepage Astragalus alpinus f. arcticus Sondén Astragalus alpinus ssp. borealis Kozhevn. Astragalus alpinus var. dilutus Norman Astragalus alpinus var. ferghanicus Freyn Astragalus alpinus f. glacialis Lipsky Astragalus alpinus var. glacialis Trautv. Astragalus alpinus f. lepageanus J.Rousseau ex Lepage Astragalus alpinus f. leucanthus Beck Astragalus alpinus f. major Lipsky Astragalus alpinus ssp. olginensis Freyn Astragalus alpinus f. parvulus (J.Rousseau) J.Rousseau Astragalus alpinus var. parvulus J.Rousseau Astragalus andinus (Nutt.) M.E.Jones Astragalus astragalinus E.Sheld. Astragalus grossheimianus Sosn. Astragalus labradoricus f. albinus J.Rousseau Astragalus minimus L. ex DC. Astragalus pauciflorus Hook. Astragalus phacinus E.H.L.Krause Astragalus robbinsii Matthew Astragalus salicetorum Kom. Astragalus secundus Michx. Astragalus variocarinus A.P.Khokhr. Atelophragma alpinum (L.) Rydb. Colutea astragalina Poir Phaca alpina (L.) Piper Phaca andina Nutt. Phaca astragalina DC. Phaca astragalina f. occidentalis Gand. Phaca minima All. Tium alpinum (L.) Rydb. Tragacantha alpina (L.) Kuntze |
| Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, GRB Great Britain, NOR Norway, SWE Sweden) 11 Middle Europe (AUT Austria, CZE Czechoslovakia, GER Germany, POL Poland, SWI Switzerland) 12 Southwestern Europe (FRA France, SPA Spain) 13 Southeastern Europe (ITA Italy, ROM Romania, YUG Yugoslavia) 14 Eastern Europe (RUN North European Russia, RUW Northwest European Russia, UKR Ukraine) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, KUR Kuril Is., MAG Magadan, SAK Sakhalin) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, TZK Tadzhikistan, UZB Uzbekistan) 33 Caucasus (NCS North Caucasus, TCS Transcaucasus) 36 China (CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (PAK Pakistan) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ALU Aleutian Is., GNL Greenland, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia, MAN Manitoba, SAS Saskatchewan) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador, NBR New Brunswick, ONT Ontario, QUE Québec) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (COL Colorado, IDA Idaho, MNT Montana, ORE Oregon, WAS Washington, WYO Wyoming) 74 North-Central U.S.A. (MIN Minnesota, SDA South Dakota, WIS Wisconsin) 75 Northeastern U.S.A. (MAI Maine, NWH New Hampshire, VER Vermont) |