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Hedysarum minjanense

Headed Sweetvetch

Family FabaceaeGenus Hedysarum

Also published as Hedysarum cephrolotes, Hedysarum cephalotes. You are in the right place.

A silvery-leaved plant among granite rocks on a dry mountain slope, with dense heads of pinkish pea flowers on bare stalks
The whole plantCody HinchliffCC BY 4.0

About the plant

What it is and where it grows — not part of any germination protocol.

Habit
subshrub or perennialPlants of the World Online
Flower
PinkFlora of Pakistan
Note
Deno prints cephrolotes; the epithet is contested between authors.GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Toxicity is noted only where a source states it. No note here is not a finding of safety.

Sources: Plants of the World Online — Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Flora of Pakistan — S. I. Ali and M. Qaiser (eds.); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993

Difficulty Low Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 7 days to germinate.

Germinates in 7 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, HedysarumPublic domain
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Hedysarum. (Fablaceae). H. cephrolotes germ. on the 7th d at 70.
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Hedysarum. Quoted exactly. Every value on this card comes from this record, except the difficulty rating, which is ours; the step names come from a fixed list.

How each step is done, in Deno’s words, and what Verified and Derived mean.

Germination trials

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