Astragalus danicusRetz.

WFO wfo-0000213553 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Astragalus danicus, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. a Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-13 / obs. 205814959
Astragalus danicus, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. b Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205089911
Astragalus danicus, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. c Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204869418
Astragalus danicus, photographed by Екатерина Гущина
fig. d Екатерина Гущина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204646790
Astragalus danicus, photographed by Екатерина Гущина
fig. e Екатерина Гущина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204689484
Astragalus danicus, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. f Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204780828
Astragalus danicus, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. g Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205445377
Astragalus danicus, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. h Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203325737

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Native range 38 botanical countries

Regions where Astragalus danicus is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Manchuria, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Primorye, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutiya, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Krym, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Poland, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine AltayAmurBuryatiyaInner MongoliaIrkutskKamchatkaKazakhstanKhabarovskKirgizstanKrasnoyarskManchuriaMongoliaNorth CaucasusPrimoryeTuvaWest SiberiaYakutiyaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFranceGermanyIrelandItalyKrymNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaPolandSouth European RussiaSpainSwedenUkraine
Native distribution of Astragalus danicus, 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
Austria AUT EUROPE
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Poland POL
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Kamchatka KAM
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Kirgizstan KGZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Kuril Is. KUR
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Primorye PRM
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is., Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for these regions, so they are listed rather than guessed at.

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.

Flowering 293 in flower of 306 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Astragalus danicus observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 293 of 306 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,996 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -25.6 °C -16.4 °C -2.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 17.3 °C 23.2 °C 25.1 °C
Annual rainfall 385 mm 561 mm 979 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 33 mm 84 mm 173 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,996 research-grade observations of Astragalus danicus 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. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

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.

  • Astragalus danicus var. danicus
  • Astragalus hypoglottis DC.
  • Astragalus hypoglottis var. danicus (Retz.) Fiori
  • Astragalus onobrychis subsp. hypoglottis Bonnier & Layens

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. 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.