Alpine Sweetvetch
Layer: Not specified
USDA Hardiness Zone: 4 - 8
Edible: Yes
Edible parts: Root
Light requirement: Full sun
Water requirement: Moist
Soil texture preferences: Light sandy, Medium, Heavy clay
Utilities: Nitrogen fixer
Native To: Tibet
Introduced To: Tibet
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- Family
- Fabaceae or leguminosae
- Height
- 0.6
- Introduced into
- Alberta, Altay, Amur, British Columbia, Buryatiya, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, East European Russia, India, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Labrador, Manchuria, Mongolia, Montana, Nebraska, Newfoundland, North European Russi, Pakistan, South Dakota, South European Russi, Tuva, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Wyoming, Yakutskiya
- Life cycle
- Perennial
- Plants for a future
- https://pfaf.org/User/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Hedysarum alpinum
- Plants of the world online
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:497455-1
- Wikipedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedysarum_alpinum
Slug: hedysarum-alpinum-alpine-sweetvetch
Permapeople ID: 3554
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