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Astragalus sesameus L.
Family Fabaceae
Subfamily Faboideae
Common name: Purple Milk-vetch

Astragalus sesameus L. APNI*

Description: Prostrate or ascending annual; stems to 30 cm long.

Leaves 3–10 cm long; leaflets 10–25, elliptic to obovate, 5–10 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, apex obtuse to emarginate; stipules triangular, c. 5 mm long.

Raceme 5–10-flowered; peduncle < 0.5 cm long; flowers subsessile; bracts ovate to lanceolate, c. 3 mm long. Calyx 5–6 mm long, teeth ± equal to tube. Corolla 8–10 mm long, bluish to pale purple; standard obovate; wings and keel shorter.

Pod 1–2 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, suture strongly indented; seeds c. 6, squarish, c. 1.5 mm long, green.


Flowering: winter–spring.

Distribution and occurrence: On stony hillsides or along roadsides. Native of S Eur.
NSW subdivisions: *NFWP
Other Australian states: *S.A.
AVH map***

Text by C. Gardner
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)


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