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Astragalus sinicus
Also called Chinese Milkvetch
Chinese milk-vetch is a low, scrambling annual or short-lived perennial legume from East Asia, grown mainly as a green manure to enrich soil with nitrogen. It thrives in full sun and open, well-drained ground.
Astragalus sinicus is a species of milkvetch in the family Fabaceae. It is known under such common names as Chinese milkvetch (or milk-vetch), renge or genge and is in common use in farming as a green manure. It is not to be confused with Astragalus mongholicus, the plant yielding Radix Astragali for Chinese medicine.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Astragalus sinicus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
