Botanical name: Caragana versicolor    Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)

Ladakh Peashrub is a densely branched, spreading or erect, very spiny shrub up to 2 ft tall, with solitary yellow often orange-flushed flowers arranged along the stems, and with tiny leaflets arising from scaly dwarf shoots in the axils of spines. Flowers are up to 1.5 cm, short-stalked; sepal-cup hairless, with broadly triangular sepals. Leaflets are 4, digitately arranged, narrow inverted-lanceshaped, mostly 5 mrn; stipules of 3 spines, the longest to about 8 mm. Pod about 3 cm, hairless. Ladakh Peashrub is found in Afghanistan to W. Nepal, Tibet, China, at altitudes of 3600-4800 m. Flowering: June-July.

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