Purple Milk-vetch

Astragalus danicus Retz.

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Schedule 41

Native, Axiophyte

Astragalus danicus

Purple Milk-vetch is a perennial herb of short unimproved turf on well-drained calcareous soils, predominantly on chalk and limestone, but also on sand dunes and machair. In Scotland, it also grows on Old Red Sandstone sea-cliffs and on mica-schist (D. A. Pearman in Preston et al, 2002).

In Norfolk, Purple Milk-vetch is confined to the light soils of Breckland. It is absent from vc 27.

Astragalus danicus map

Year GR Locality Recorders
1979 TL981829 East Harling CPP
Not mapped
1985 TL790987 Foulden parish GB, KAB
Not mapped. Wide grassy ride in forest
1987+ TF70Z Unspecified Unknown
1987+ TF80H Unspecified Unknown
1987+ TL78T Unspecified Unknown
1989 TF800061 Swaffham JEG
Rifle range
1990 TL778097 Swaffham PWL
Disused railway cutting - now filled in
1991 TL768917 Weeting GB, JEG
Forest ride
1993 TF798019 Gooderstone SP
Chalk pit on warren
1996 TF789072 Beachamwell JEG
Drymere Plantation, also TF783077 in 1992
2000 TF775085 Beachamwell JEG
2002 TF7408 Beachamwell, Devil's Dyke HW
GR TF745083 recorded in 1996
2005 TL767940 Cranwich GB, KAB
TL76789406, 1 colony. Roadside nature reserve (RNR31)
2009 TL964841 West Harling Forest MPG, NFG
Scattered throughout the re-planted area, 100s of plants
2009 TL808901 Weeting, Grimes Graves GB, KAB
Gun area
2009 TL776934 Cranwich Heath GB, KAB
Also in 2004 TL775934, TL776934, TL779933, TL781931, TL784928, GB, NFG
2013 TL758892 Weeting Heath SSSI RWE, NSBG
Also TL757894, TL759900, TL759901, TL760897, TL760898, TL760901, TL761894, TL761898, TL761899, TL761900
2013 TL797897 Weeting-with-Broomhill AP, CLR, MF
TL79718972
2013 TL815899 Weeting, Grimes Graves RWE, RML, NFG
Also TG813900, TL814900, TL816899, TL819900
2015 TL772942 Cranwich Camp RNC, PAS, BSBI
Also TL774941. Also in 2011 at TL768943, TL770941, TL770942 RWE, NA and in 2007, TL773941, TL773942 , GB, RWE,NFG
2015 TL904814 Brettenham RWE, PAS, BSBI
Seven Hills area
2016 TL785912 Weeting-with-Broomhill RWE, NFG
TL783915, TL784914, TL785913, TL786913, TL787909