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Astragalus cicer
About
Astragalus cicer, the chickpea milkvetch, chick-pea milk-vetch or cicer milkvetch, is a perennial flowering plant native to Eastern Europe, popularized and subsequently transported to areas in Southern Europe, North America, and South America. It produces pods that resemble those of chickpeas. Its flowers are usually of pale yellow tint, and attract bumble or European honey bees for pollination. Growth often exceeds 0.6 meters, up to a height of 1 meter in length.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Astragalus cicer
- Slug
- astragalus-cicer
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Astragalus
- Species
- cicer
- Wikidata QID
- Q161126
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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