Fabaceae

Astragalus galegiformis

Astragalus L. Astragalus galegiformis L. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 6 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 7 Habitat: çağıllıklar, tepe kenarları, yolkenarları Minimum yükseklik: 1500 Maksimum yükseklik: 2200 Endemik: - Element: Avrupa-Sibirya Türkiye dağılımı: KD. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Kafkasya, G. Rusya Bulunduğu kareler:A8 A9 B4

A. galegiformis L., Sp. PL 1066 (1753). Ic: Reichb., Ic. Fl. Germ. 22: t. 155 (1903); Fl. URSS 12: t. 36 (1946). Figure 1, p. 91.   Erect, caulescent perennial; stems 60-100 cm. Leaves 8-15 cm; leaflets 10-22 mm, elliptic, obtuse, glabrous above, sparsely white simple-hairy beneath, 12-20-paired; stipules 3-10 mm, linear-lanceolate. Peduncles 7-14 cm. Flowers shortly pedicellate, pendulous, in lax, cylindrical, 30-40-flowered racemes. Bracts 6-8 mm, linear. Calyx c. 5 mm, campanulate, sparsely black spreading-hairy; teeth 2-3 mm, subulate to triangular. Corolla pale yellow; standard 14-16 mm. Legume 12-15 mm, plano-convex, laterally compressed, glabrous, long-stipitate, mucronate. Fl. 6-7. Screes, hillsides, roadside banks, 1500-2200 m.   Described from Siberia (Hb. Cliff.!).   Mainly N.E. Anatolia. A8 Erzurum: Tortum, Calvert. A9 Çoruh: nr. Ardanuç (Grossheim 5: map 321); Kars: Yalnizçam nr. Hasköy, 23 vii 1961, Karaman-ogliil 30 km from Horasan to Karakurt, 1500 m, D. 46498! B4 Ankara: Yeni Akagi, Üresin 249!   Caucasia, S. Russia. Euro-Siberian element? The plant cited from B4 Ankara may have been introduced.