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Hedysarum alpinum (alpine sweetvetch; Sweet-broom)

Synonyms: Banalia alpina (homotypic); Echinolobium alpinum (homotypic); Hedysarum alpinum var. alpinum; Hedysarum alpinum var. americanum; Hedysarum elongatum
Language: Komi; Mongolian; Russian

Wikipedia Abstract

Hedysarum alpinum is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name alpine sweetvetch. It has a circumpolar distribution, occurring throughout the northern latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. In North America it is widespread in Canada and the northernmost United States, including Alaska.
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Infraspecies

Hedysarum alpinum alpinum
Hedysarum alpinum laxiflorum
Hedysarum alpinum var. grandiflorum
Hedysarum alpinum var. philoscia

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Herb
Height [1]  24 inches (0.6 m)
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External References

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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