Family | FABACEAE |
Genus species | Astragalus longiscapus C.C.Ni & P.C.Li sect. Pseudotapinodes |
Bibliography | Acta Phytotax. Sin. 17(2): 108 (1979) |
Native Range | Tibet to Nepal |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | scree |
Altitude | 4000-4700m |
Description | leaves 5-10cm, leaflets 3-5 pairs, narrowly oblong, 5-8mm, adaxially glabrous, abaxially densely white appressed hirsute, flowers many in dense capitate raceme, corolla 6mm |
Size | 4-10cm |
Color | purple |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, semi-shade |
Propagation | scarified seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 10-13°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 36 China (CHT Tibet) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (NEP Nepal) |