Plate 1 figs. a–e · 3 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 4 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Algeria | ALG | AFRICA |
| Morocco | MOR | |
| France | FRA | EUROPE |
| Spain | SPA |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Where it actually grows measured, from 233 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -0.2 °C | 0.9 °C | 4.2 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 27.4 °C | 31.6 °C | 32.8 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 364 mm | 425 mm | 641 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 40 mm | 49 mm | 84 mm |
It is found where winters bring light frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 233 research-grade observations of Astragalus alopecuroides that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 23 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Alopecias alopecuroides (L.) Steven
- Alopecias narbonensis Steven
- Astragaloides alopecurus Moench
- Astragalus africanus Bunge
- Astragalus afriquenus Bunge
- Astragalus alopecuroides subsp. narbonensis (Gouan) Bonnier & Layens
- Astragalus alopecuroides var. glabrescens (Coss.) Fern.Casas
- Astragalus alopecuroides var. grosii (Pau) Fern.Casas
- Astragalus alopecuroides var. typicus Pamp.
- Astragalus atlanticus (Ball) Batt.
- Astragalus atlanticus (Ball) Ball
- Astragalus grosii Pau
- Astragalus marianorum Sennen
- Astragalus narbonensis Gouan
- Astragalus narbonensis subsp. africanus (Bunge) Ball
- Astragalus narbonensis subsp. atlanticus Ball
- Astragalus narbonensis var. africanus (Bunge) Kuntze
- Astragalus narbonensis var. atlanticus (Ball) Kuntze
- Astragalus narbonensis var. claryi Batt.
- Astragalus narbonensis var. glabrescens Coss.
- Tragacantha alopecurodes (L.) Kuntze
- Tragacantha atlantica (Ball) Kuntze
- Tragacantha narbonensis (Gouan) Kuntze
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.