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§1 Plant
Hedysarum alpinum L.
vernacular alpine sweetvetch — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Hedysarum
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 29 counties across 7 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- High
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -62 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 28–80 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Dense
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- Low
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 70,000
- Propagation
- seed, container, sod
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- High
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Protein potential
- High
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 29 counties across 7 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 17 N ▾
- Aleutians West 02016
- Anchorage 02020
- Bethel 02050
- Chugach 02063
- Copper River 02066
- Denali 02068
- Fairbanks North Star 02090
- Haines 02100
- Kenai Peninsula 02122
- Lake and Peninsula 02164
- Matanuska-Susitna 02170
- Nome 02180
- North Slope 02185
- Northwest Arctic 02188
- Southeast Fairbanks 02240
- Yakutat 02282
- Yukon-Koyukuk 02290
Maine view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/HEAL ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2949263 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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