Family | FABACEAE |
Genus species | Astragalus camelorum Barb.-Boiss. & Barbey sect. Ammodendron |
Bibliography | Herb. Levant.: 131 (1882) |
Native Range | Jordan to n. Sinai |
Primary Biome | Desert or Dry Shrubland |
Habitat | dry, sandy grassland |
Description | grey sericeous, stipules connate, leaflets 7-9, remote, oblong, obtuse, complicate, racemes axillary, shortly pedicellate, 6-8-flowered, bracts oblong, calyx campanulate |
Size | 10-15cm |
Color | yellowish purple |
Bloom | spring, summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | dry, sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, dry, sandy soil, sun |
Propagation | scarified seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 10-13°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 34 Western Asia (PAL Palestine, SIN Sinai) |