Caragana leucophloea Pojark.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Caragana

Characteristics

Shrubs to 1.5 m tall. Branches yellowish white to yellow; current-year branchlets purplish red. Leaves digitate, 4-folio­late; petiole 5-8 mm and persistent on long branchlets, absent and leaves clustered on short branchlets; leaflet blades narrowly oblanceolate, 4-12 × 1-3 mm, green, pale green, or reddish, both surfaces glabrous or appressed pubescent, apex acute to obtuse. Flowers solitary or 2 in a fascicle. Pedicel 3-15 mm, glabrous, articulate basally or apically from middle. Calyx tube campanulate, 5-6 mm. Corolla yellow; standard broadly obo­vate, 1.3-1.8 cm, claw short; wings with claw ca. 1/3 as long as limb, auricle ca. 2/3 as long as claw; keel with claw slightly shorter than limb, auricle obtuse and ca. 2 mm. Ovary glabrous. Legume cylindric, 3-3.5 cm, glabrous. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jul-Aug.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.5
Root system -
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Root diameter (meter) -
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Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

Usage

Uses forage medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 14 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 21
Germination luminosity light
Germination treatment soaking
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Caragana leucophloea unspecified picture

Distribution

Caragana leucophloea world distribution map, present in China, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:483851-1
WFO ID wfo-0000198217
COL ID QZYS
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Caragana leucophloea Caragana aurantiaca var. deserticola Caragana pygmaea subsp. leucophloea