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Hedysarum hedysaroides (Alpine French Honeysuckle; Sussklee)

Synonyms: Astragalus hedysaroides (homotypic); Hedysarum armenium; Hedysarum obscurum elongatum; Hedysarum silicii

Wikipedia Abstract

Hedysarum hedysaroides, common name Alpine Sainfoin, is a perennial herb belonging to the family Fabaceae.
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Infraspecies

Hedysarum hedysaroides arcticum (Attributes)
Hedysarum hedysaroides boutignyanum
Hedysarum hedysaroides exaltatum
Hedysarum hedysaroides hedysaroides
Hedysarum hedysaroides tschuktschorum
Hedysarum obscurum f. obscurum

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  UV-Blue
Flower Color [1]  Violet
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Height [2]  16 inches (0.4 m)
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Infertile
Soil Moisture [3]  Moist
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Ib 591068 Alaska, United States
Kronotskiy Biosphere Reserve 361480 Russia  
Magadansky Zapovednik 2332834 Russia  
Ve¾ká Fatra 149348 Slovakia  

Predators

Colias alexandra (Queen Alexandra's Sulphur)[4]
Colias hecla (artic sulphur)[4]
Colias tyche (Pale Arctic Clouded Yellow)[4]
Glaucopsyche alexis (Green-Underside Blue)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Ellenberg, H., Weber, H.E., Dull, R., Wirth, V., Werner, W., Paulissen, D. (1991) Zeigerwerte von Pflanzen in Mitteleuropa. Scripta Geobotanica 18, 1–248
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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