Astragalus munroi - Hairy Milk-Vetch

Hairy Milk-Vetch is a perennial herb, with many stems arising from the root top; up to 40 cm tall, but often smaller, densely hairy. Leaf are imparipinnately compound, leaf-stalk about 1.3-3 cm long, hairy; axis (excluding leaf-stalk) about 2.2-5.0 cm long, hairy. Leaflets are 19-23, about 1-2 cm long, about 2-4 mm broad, oblong, entire, blunt, hairy on both sides; stipules lateral, about 9-17 mm long, hairy. Flowers are yellow, vexillum about 2.1-2.2 cm long, hairless. Sepal-cup about 18 mm long, hairy, teeth about 9 mm long. Flowers are borne in leaf-axils, in racemes carried on flower-cluster-stalk about 8 mm or less long, hairy. Bracts are about 9-10 mm long, hairy; flower-stalk about 2 mm long, hairy. Fruit is about 2.5-2.7 cm long, about 1.9-2 cm broad, stipitate, inflated, hairy, partly bilocular, many-seeded. Hairy Milk-Vetch is found in West Himalaya, Tibet; Chinese Turkestan, at altitudes of 3000-5200 m. Flowering: June-September.