1255 Hedysarum hedysaroides (L.) Schinz & Thell.

Syn.: H. obscurum L.

This polymorphic species (three subspecies in Fl. Eur. 2/1968, p. 186) is widely but disjunctly distributed in Eurasia and northwestern N. America. Its distribution in large parts of Asia is incompletely known. Cf. also Meusel et al. 1965, map p. 247.