Family | FABACEAE |
Genus species | Astragalus kongrensis Benth. ex Baker sect. Skythropos |
Bibliography | Benth. ex Baker, Fl. Brit. India [J.D.Hooker] 2: 120 (1876) |
Native Range | sc. China to e. Himalaya |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | grassland |
Description | leaves 7-22cm, petiolate, leaflets 7-15 pairs, elliptic, 4-15mm, rounded, adaxially subglabrous, abaxially hirsute, flowers 6-16 in dense raceme, corolla 16-20mm long |
Size | 6-14cm |
Color | violet, bluish violet |
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 |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 36 China (CHC China South-Central, CHT Tibet) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (EHM East Himalaya) |