Botanical name: Astragalus multiceps    Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Tragacantha multiceps, Astragalus leptacanthus, Astragalus bicuspis

Many-Headed Milk-Vetch is a plant up to 2 ft tall, mostly branched at base, with spreading hairs 0.4-2 mm, vegetative parts only white hairy. Flower-racemes are nearly stalkless or with a stalk rarely up to 1.4 cm, 1-3-flowered; bracts 3-5 mm, fringed with hairs. Petals are yellow, hairless; standard obovate, 1.5-2.6 x 0.7-1 cm; wings 1.4-2.3 cm; keel 1.3-1.9 cm. Bracteoles are sometimes present. Sepal-cup is 0.9-1.5 cm, rather densely white hairy, sometimes also with shorter black hairs; teeth 2.5-5 mm. Stems of current year are up to 40 cm, hairy. Leaves are 2.5-4.5 cm, spreading; stipules 4.5-9 mm, half stem-clasping, adnate to peti­ole for 1.5-2 mm, fringed with hairs, otherwise hairless or hairy; leaf-stalk 0.5-1 cm; axis thin, hairy, free spiny tip as long as upper­most leaflets. Leaflets are in 4-6 pairs, obovate, lower ones 5-11 x 3-4 mm, hairy on both surfaces or more rarely hairless above, tip rounded to retuse. Pods are nearly stalkless, 1-1.5 cm, 3-5 mm high, compressed laterally, with a beak 2-5 mm, incompletely 2-locular; valves leathery, densely hairy. Many-Headed Milk-Vetch is found from N Pakistan to Nepal, at altitudes of 1300-3300 m.

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