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Fabaceae
Liquorice milk-vetch
Astragalus glycyphyllos
Also known as Licorice milkvetch, Wild licorice, Astragalus glycyphyllos, Astragalus lunatus
Native Plants · Milk-Vetch · Legume · Wildflower · Nitrogen-Fixing · Perennial · Meadow · Native · Pollinator · Ground Cover · Herbal
Liquorice milk-vetch is an undemanding perennial legume suited to meadow gardens, wildflower borders, or naturalistic plantings in part shade to full sun. It fixes atmospheric nitrogen, improving soil health for neighbouring plants with little intervention needed. Allow it to self-seed for a naturalistic effect and cut back dead stems in early spring.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 5 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately, ensuring soil is moist but not waterlogged; reduce in winter · Every 10-14 days; tolerates dry spells once established
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- sandy loam
- Soil pH
- 7–7.5
- Temperature
- -25°F to 90°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
Hardiness
USDA 3a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 8 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 24 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Deep
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Fine
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Albania, Altay, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Indiana, Iran
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle, usda
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