| Family | FABACEAE |
| Genus species | Astragalus umbellatus Bunge sect. Cenantrum |
| Bibliography | Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, Sér. 7, 11(16): 24 (1868) |
| Native Range | Subarctic and Temperate Northern Hemisphere |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
| Habitat | grassland |
| Description | leaflets 3-4 pairs, oval or ovate, 10-15mm, obtuse, emarginate, adaxially glabrous, abaxially pubescent, flowers in umbellate raceme, corolla 12-18mm long, pod elliptic |
| Size | 5-20cm |
| Color | pale yellow |
| 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 alpinus var. littoralis (Hook.) E.Sheld. Astragalus frigidus var. littoralis (Hook.) S.Watson Astragalus littoralis (Hook.) Coville & Standl. ex Mertie Phaca frigida var. demissa Ledeb. Phaca frigida var. littoralis Hook. Phaca littoralis (Hook.) Rydb. Tragacantha umbellata (Bunge) Kuntze |
| Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 14 Eastern Europe (RUN North European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, MAG Magadan) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (BRC British Columbia) |