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  • COMMON NAME: milkvetch
  • ARABIC: أصابع العروس، ابو خواتم
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Astragalus annularis Forssk.
  • SYNONYMS: Astragalus maculatus, Astragalus subulatus, Astragalus trimorphus.
  • FAMILY: FABACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Distinguishing characteristic: mottled seed pods.
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/astragalus_annularis.htm M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.
Annual, 2-25 cm across. Stems prostrate, decumbent or ascending, densely furnished with grayish hairs. Leaves alternate, 4-5 cm long, imparipinnate, petiolate; stipulate; leaflets 3-4 pairs, 6-10 mm long and 3-6 mm broad, obovate-oblong, obtuse, pubescent on both sides. Racemes 2-4 flowered, usually subequalling or exceeding the subtending leaf. Bracts linear-lanceolate, ciliate. Flowers 5-7 mm long. Calyx campanulate, 3-4 mm long, densely covered with appressed black and white hairs. Corolla pink, 6-7 mm long. Pod sessile, grooved, falcate to horseshoe-shaped, 20-40 mm long and 2-3 mm broad, 1-celled, adpressed hairy, glabrescent at maturity, mottled with red spots, ending in a shore stiff beak. Seeds quadrate-reniform, yellowish smooth. Flowering from February to April.
Sandy soils.
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