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Astragalus gummifer
Also called Gum Tragacanth, Tragacanth, Tragacanth Milk Vetch
Gum tragacanth milkvetch is a small, spiny, woody evergreen shrub, about 30 cm high and wide, native to dry mountain areas of western Asia. It is grown mainly for its gum (tragacanth) and as a hardy, drought-tolerant rockery or dryland plant.
Astragalus gummifer (tragacanth, gum tragacanth milkvetch), is a small woody evergreen shrub, with a typical height and spread of 30 cm at maturity, indigenous to western Asia, specifically Iran, Iraq and Turkey. This nitrogen fixing plant bears hermaphroditic flowers, which are bee-pollinated. It has many medical, culinary, and material uses.
Astragalus gummifer is native to temperate regions of Western Asia centralized in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey but also found in Tajikastan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Russia.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
