Astragalus contortuplicatusL.

Hungarian milkvetch

WFO wfo-0000212475 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Astragalus contortuplicatus, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. a Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-21 / obs. 158117581
Astragalus contortuplicatus, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. b Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158117601
Astragalus contortuplicatus, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. c Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158117617
Astragalus contortuplicatus, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. d Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158117629
Astragalus contortuplicatus, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. e Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158117653
Astragalus contortuplicatus, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. f Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158117642

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Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Astragalus contortuplicatus is native: Altay, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Pakistan, Bulgaria, East European Russia, Hungary, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, South European Russia, Ukraine AltayInner MongoliaIranKazakhstanKrasnoyarskMongoliaNorth CaucasusTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTurkmenistanTuvaUzbekistanWest SiberiaXinjiangPakistanBulgariaEast European RussiaHungaryItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSouth European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Astragalus contortuplicatus, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Inner Mongolia CHI
Iran IRN
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Turkmenistan TKM
Tuva TVA
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Bulgaria BUL EUROPE
East European Russia RUE
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Ukraine UKR
Pakistan PAK ASIA-TROPICAL

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 52 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -19.2 °C -9.2 °C -3.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.1 °C 26.8 °C 30.3 °C
Annual rainfall 291 mm 415 mm 772 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 46 mm 81 mm 161 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 52 research-grade observations of Astragalus contortuplicatus 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 4 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.

  • Ankylobus contortuplicatus (L.) Steven
  • Contortuplicata astragaloides Medik.
  • Contortuplicata contortuplicata (L.) Rydb.
  • Tragacantha contortuplicata (L.) Kuntze

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.