前言沙打旺即直立黄芪(Astragalus adsurgens Pall.)。日本、朝鲜、蒙古、苏联以及北美等地均有野生分布,我国北起黑龙江、内蒙古,南至四川、云南,均有野生群落。大约数十年前,在黄河故道地区开始对其进行野生驯化和人工栽培。近年来北方各地已把它作为重要的牧草、绿肥和水上保持植物,正在大力推广种植。 Introduction Astragalus Astragalus adsurgens Pall. Japan, North Korea, Mongolia, the Soviet Union and North America and other places are wildly distributed, north of our country from Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, south Sichuan, Yunnan, have wild communities. About a few decades ago, wild domestication and artificial cultivation began in the area of ​​the old course of the Yellow River. In recent years, it has been vigorously promoted as an important pasture, green manure and water-holding plant in various parts of the North China.