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Caragana pygmaea (L.) Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Caragana

Characteristics

Shrubs to 50 cm tall. Branches golden yellow, shiny, pu­bescent when young but gradually glabrescent. Leaves digitate, 4-foliolate; petiole 4-6 mm and persistent on long branchlets, absent and leaves clustered on short branchlets; leaflet blades oblanceolate to linear, (5-)7-17(-30) × 1-3 mm, both surfaces glabrous, apex obtuse to acute. Flowers solitary. Pedicel 0.6-2 cm, articulate basally or apically from middle, glabrous or pu­bescent. Calyx tube tubular-campanulate, 5-6 mm. Corolla yel­low, 1-1.6 cm; standard broadly obovate, claw ca. 1/3 as long as limb; wings oblong, inflated toward apex, auricle short; keel with claw as long as limb, auricle obtuse. Ovary densely pubes­cent. Legume linear, 2-3 cm, pubescent when young, glabres­cent. Fl. May, fr. Jun. 2n = 16.
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A shrub. It grows 50 cm tall. The branches are golden yellow. They are hairy when young. The leaves have 4 leaflets. They are 7-17 mm long by 1-3 mm wide. The flowers occur singly and are yellow. The pod is narrow and 2-3 cm long. It is hairy when young.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.85
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months
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Nitrogen fixer
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Covering enormous stretches on steppes, dry hills, stony slopes, taluses, steppe valleys of mountain streams, barchan and dune sands (with barchan sand-hillocks piling up around them); sometimes in meadows, even peaty meadows
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It is a temperate plant. In north and west China it grows in sandy areas and on rocky slopes between 800-1,300 m above sea level. It grows in hardiness zones 5-7.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 1-6
Soil texture 3-5
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 4-6

Usage

Uses fiber forage medicinal wood
Edible flowers roots
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs scarification and soaking.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) 14 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 21
Germination luminosity light
Germination treatment scarification soaking
Minimum temperature (C°) -35
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Caragana pygmaea unspecified picture

Distribution

Caragana pygmaea world distribution map, present in Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Moldova (Republic of), Mongolia, Russian Federation, and Ukraine

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:517744-1
WFO ID wfo-0000186050
COL ID 5WZV5
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Caragana pygmaea Robinia pygmaea Caragana komarovii Caragana splendens Aspalathus pygmaeus Caragana pygmaea var. pygmaea Caragana pygmaea var. altaica Caragana pygmaea subsp. altaica Caragana pygmaea f. longifolia Caragana pygmaea subsp. austrotuvinica Caragana pygmaea var. parviflora Caragana pygmaea var. acicularis Caragana pygmaea var. ouratensis Caragana pygmaea var. viridissima
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