Astragalus hirsutus
Astragalus hirsutus
Tüylü geven
Dwarf, scapose, perennial herb with a woody caudex. Leaves 1-6 cm; leaflets 4-12 mm, elliptic to obovate, densely white adpressed to spreading bifurcate-pilose, 4-5-paired; stipules 6-8 mm, lanceolate, adnate to the petiole. Peduncles 2-6 cm. Inflorescence c. 2 cm diam., a dense, globose, 7-20-flowered spike. Bracts 6-8 mm, linear. Bracteoles absent or minute and one per flower. Calyx 6-8 mm, tubular-campanulate, with varying proportions of long white spreading simple hairs and short black adpressed bifurcate hairs; teeth c. 2 mm, linear, usually exclusively black-hairy. Corolla yellow; standard 15-18 mm, lamina obovate. Legume c. 8 x 3 mm, oblong, densely long white simple-pilose; beak 1-3 mm, curved.Fl. 6-7. Under Pinus and in grassland, calcareous scree, 800-3200 m.
Endemic. Allied to A. alindanus.
