Rob's plants
home garden plants wildlife seed photos
plant sale journal topics plantlinks fun guestbook

Astragalus newberryi var. castoreus

 
Common name Newberry's milkvetch
Family fabaceae
Life cycle
Flowers purple

Curiously patterned purple/pink pea flowers over a tuft of soft-hairy bluish gray leaves. Does not appear to be used in gardens much, so I'll have to find out for myself if it's worth growing. Just seedlings for now. It hails from the semi-desert, so overwintering them in Pennsylvania cold and wet is likely going to be a challenge.

This plant used to grow in our garden, but it slipped away...

About my plant portraits
PlantLinks to other web pages about Astragalus newberryi var. castoreus


Seed-starting details for this plant

  1. Seed from NARGS '12/'13 exchange. Sandpapered, baggy 70F (52%G, 5-60d)

Extended germination: even after swelling, many seeds take their time to swing into action.


I welcome comments about my web pages; feel free to use the form below to leave feedback about this particular page. For the benefit of other visitors to these pages, I will list any relevant comments you leave, and if appropriate, I will update my page to correct mis-information. Faced with an ever-increasing onslaught of spam, I'm forced to discard any comments including html markups. Please submit your comment as plain text. If you have a comment about the website as a whole, please leave it in my guestbook. If you have a question that needs a personal response, please e-mail me.

Your name

Your comments