Astragalus ponticus Pall.
Synonymy
Taxon info
Astragalus ponticus is a large and showy species of SE Europe and Anatolia. In Greece it is confined to a small area in the north-east, growing in open deciduous scrub at low altitude. The somewhat similar A. graecus was once common as a perennial weed of cultivated fields in Attiki, but is now probably extinct, most of its former localities being under the asphalt and concrete of metropolitan Athens. A related species, A. drupaceus, is still found in some localities in Peloponnisos.A
A. Dimopoulos, P., Raus, Th., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, Th., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A. & Tzanoudakis, D. 2013: Vascular plants of Greece: An annotated checklist. 31: p. 338 [Plate 11.2]
