| Green-Flowered Milk Vetch |
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| File size | 287074 |
| Original date | 8/15/06 3:22 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/188s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Astragalus chlorostachys Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Astragalus altissimus, Hedysarum strobiliferum
Synonyms: Astragalus altissimus, Hedysarum strobiliferum
Green-Flowered Milk Vetch is an erect perennial
herb, with spikes of numerous yellow-green or pinkish to white,
drooping flowers, borne on stalks longer than the pinnate leaves.
Flowers are 1-1.5 cm, with tubular sepal cup 6-7 mm long, finely hairy,
oblique at the mouth, teeth triangular, less than 1 mm long. Vexillum
is about 1.2-1.4 cm long, hairless. Fruit is about 1.2-1.3 cm long,
hairless, 6-10-seeded; stipe longer than calyx. Leaf are
imparipinnately compound, about 7-15 cm long, leaflets 13-17, about
1.2-2.0 cm long, oblong, obtuse, glabrescent above, finely white
pubescent below; stipules lanceolate, free. Green-Flowered Milk Vetch
is found in the Himalayas, from Pakistan to Bhutan, at altitudes of
1800-3700 m. Flowering: July-August.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Valley of Flowers, Uttarakhand. |