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Eastern Goat's-rue

Galega orientalis

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 337, February 249, March 389, April 613, May 883, June 963, July 1,031, August 886, September 651, October 486, November 265, December 207.
United States6,960
Alaska6,960
Russia3,720
Penza Oblast460
Moscow Oblast412
Moscow381
Sverdlovsk Oblast229
Republic of Mordovia218
Finland157
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast155

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • Nitrogen fixingDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with nitrogen-fixing symbioses.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderLegumes, Milkworts, and Allies · Fabales
FamilyLegumes · Fabaceae
GenusGoat-rues · Galega

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