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Astragalus alpinus (Alpine Milkvetch; Alpen-Tragant)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Astragalus alpinus is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name alpine milkvetch. It has a circumpolar distribution, occurring throughout the upper latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. It is widespread in Eurasia. In North America it occurs from Alaska to Newfoundland and as far south as Nevada and New Mexico. This plant species provides food for caribou, Arctic hares, greater snow geese, and grizzly bears.
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Infraspecies

Astragalus alpinus alpinus (Alpine Milk-vetch) (Attributes)
Astragalus alpinus brunetianus (Attributes)

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Blue
Flower Color [1]  Purple
Height [2]  12 inches (.3 m)
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [4]  Herb
Light Preference [3]  Full Sun
Soil Acidity [3]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [3]  Infertile
Soil Moisture [3]  Mostly Dry

Protected Areas

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Bombus polaris (Bumblebee)[8]
Colias hecla (artic sulphur)[8]
Colias tyche (Pale Arctic Clouded Yellow)[8]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Erysiphe astragali[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

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.
♦ 2PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
♦ 6Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 7Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 8Mosquin, T., and J. E. H. Martin. 1967. Observations on the pollination biology of plants on Melville Island, N.W.T., Canada. Canadian Field Naturalist 81:201-205.
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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