Astragalus monspessulanus

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Astragalus monspessulanus, photographed by Yves Bas — fig. b Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197902117

Astragalus monspessulanus, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli — fig. c Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 192919932

Astragalus monspessulanus, photographed by David Delon — fig. d David Delon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190921993

Astragalus monspessulanus, photographed by Samuel GUIRAUDOU — fig. f Samuel GUIRAUDOU, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188231837

Astragalus monspessulanus, photographed by Niklas Wahlberg — fig. g Niklas Wahlberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 187862322

Astragalus monspessulanus, photographed by Andre Hosper — fig. h Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189626756

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Native distribution of Astragalus monspessulanus, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Albania	ALB	EUROPE
Bulgaria	BUL
France	FRA
Greece	GRC
Italy	ITA
Krym	KRY
NW. Balkan Pen.	YUG
Romania	ROM
Sicilia	SIC
Spain	SPA
Switzerland	SWI
Ukraine	UKR
Algeria	ALG	AFRICA
Morocco	MOR
Tunisia	TUN

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 450 in flower of 509 examined

97%

99%

84%

80%

73%

Proportion of examined Astragalus monspessulanus in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	2	2	too few examined
Feb	1	1	too few examined
Mar	31	32	97%	84% to 99%
Apr	178	179	99%	97% to 100%
May	177	211	84%	78% to 88%
Jun	51	64	80%	68% to 88%
Jul	8	11	73%	43% to 90%
Aug	0	2	too few examined
Sep	0	1	too few examined
Oct	0	1	too few examined
Nov	2	4	too few examined
Dec	0	1	too few examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Astragalus monspessulanus 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. 450 of 509 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 2,002 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-8.7 °C	-0.4 °C	4.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	19.4 °C	25.9 °C	29.9 °C
Annual rainfall	563 mm	918 mm	1,605 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	69 mm	150 mm	266 mm

It is found where winters bring hard 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 2,002 research-grade observations of Astragalus monspessulanus 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 72 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 atticus Hausskn.
Astragalus chaubardii Bunge
Astragalus chlorocyaneus Boiss. & Reut.
Astragalus cossonii Bunge
Astragalus dalmaticus Bunge ex Nyman
Astragalus declinatus Salisb.
Astragalus glacialis Lovrić
Astragalus glacialis subsp. uraganicus Lovric
Astragalus glacialis var. uraganicus Lovrić
Astragalus illyricus Bernh.
Astragalus illyricus prol. dinaricus (Beck) Asch. & Graebn.
Astragalus illyricus prol. microphyllus (Marches.) Asch. & Graebn.
Astragalus illyricus prol. soyeri (Buchinger ex Bunge) Asch. & Graebn.
Astragalus illyricus prol. wulfenii (W.D.J.Koch) Asch. & Graebn.
Astragalus illyricus var. brachyceras Beck
Astragalus illyricus var. dinaricus Beck
Astragalus illyricus var. microphyllus Marches.
Astragalus illyricus var. soyeri (Buchinger ex Bunge) Beck
Astragalus illyricus var. wulfenii (W.D.J.Koch) Beck
Astragalus incurvus Rchb.
Astragalus incurvus var. macroceras W.D.J.Koch
Astragalus kindlii Formánek
Astragalus macedonicus Heldr. & Hadji
Astragalus monspeliensis Sims

and 48 more.

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.