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Astragalus mongholicus

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Wikipedia Abstract

Astragalus propinquus (syn. Astragalus membranaceus also known as huáng qí (Chinese: 黄芪), běi qí (Chinese: 北芪) or huáng huā huáng qí (Chinese: 黄花黄耆), is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine. It is a perennial plant and it is not listed as being threatened.
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Infraspecies

Astragalus membranaceus f. membranaceus

Attributes

Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [1]  Many members of this genus contain toxic glycosides; All species with edible seedpods can be distinguished by their fleshy round or oval seedpod that looks somewhat like a greengage; A number of species can also accumulate toxic levels of selenium when grown in soils that are relatively rich in that element;
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Bees, Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Herb
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Changbai Mountain Nature Reserve V 619089 Jilin, China  
Daurskiy Biosphere Reserve 562659 Russia  
Ussuriysky Zapovednik Ia 99910 Primorsky Krai , Russia

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0