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Astragalus beckwithii

Weiser's milkvetch

Applegate's milkvetch

Habit Plants perennial, caulescent, thinly strigillose, hairs basifixed.
Stems

1–few, prostrate, 30–40 cm.

Leaves

3.5–7 cm;

leaflets 7–11, linear to linear-elliptic; (5)8–20 × 1–3 mm;

tips obtuse or sometimes mucronulate;

surfaces abaxially strigillose, adaxially glabrous;

stipules 1.5–3 mm; free.

Inflorescences

racemes loosely 10–18-flowered;

peduncles 3–6 cm;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

pedicels 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

Flowers

spreading at anthesis, declined in age;

calyces 3–3.3 mm, strigillose with white or a mixture of white and black hairs;

tubes 2.3–2.5 mm;

teeth triangular, 0.7–0.9 mm;

corollas 6.5–7 mm; whitish, tinged with lilac;

ovules 8–10.

Fruits

unilocular, spreading or declined, oblong-ellipsoid,

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straight, strongly laterally compressed, bicarinate, 8–11 × 2.4 × 3 mm, strigillose;

valves thinly cartilaginous;

stipes 4–5 mm.

Astragalus beckwithii

Astragalus applegatei

Distribution
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Discussion

Moist meadows, ditches, wet flats. Flowering Jun–Jul. 1200–1400 m. ECas. Native. Endemic to Oregon.

Applegate’s milkvetch is currently known only from Klamath County, Oregon.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 658
Richard Halse
Sibling taxa
A. accidens, A. agrestis, A. alpinus, A. alvordensis, A. applegatei, A. arthuri, A. atratus, A. australis, A. californicus, A. calycosus, A. canadensis, A. caricinus, A. collinus, A. conjunctus, A. curvicarpus, A. cusickii, A. diaphanus, A. drummondii, A. eremiticus, A. filipes, A. gambellianus, A. geyeri, A. hoodianus, A. howellii, A. inflexus, A. iodanthus, A. kentrophyta, A. lemmonii, A. lentiginosus, A. malacus, A. misellus, A. mulfordiae, A. multiflorus, A. newberryi, A. nudisiliquus, A. obscurus, A. peckii, A. platytropis, A. purshii, A. reventus, A. robbinsii, A. salmonis, A. sclerocarpus, A. sheldonii, A. solitarius, A. spaldingii, A. sterilis, A. succumbens, A. tegetarioides, A. tetrapterus, A. toanus, A. tweedyi, A. tyghensis, A. umbraticus, A. vallaris, A. whitneyi
A. accidens, A. agrestis, A. alpinus, A. alvordensis, A. arthuri, A. atratus, A. australis, A. beckwithii, A. californicus, A. calycosus, A. canadensis, A. caricinus, A. collinus, A. conjunctus, A. curvicarpus, A. cusickii, A. diaphanus, A. drummondii, A. eremiticus, A. filipes, A. gambellianus, A. geyeri, A. hoodianus, A. howellii, A. inflexus, A. iodanthus, A. kentrophyta, A. lemmonii, A. lentiginosus, A. malacus, A. misellus, A. mulfordiae, A. multiflorus, A. newberryi, A. nudisiliquus, A. obscurus, A. peckii, A. platytropis, A. purshii, A. reventus, A. robbinsii, A. salmonis, A. sclerocarpus, A. sheldonii, A. solitarius, A. spaldingii, A. sterilis, A. succumbens, A. tegetarioides, A. tetrapterus, A. toanus, A. tweedyi, A. tyghensis, A. umbraticus, A. vallaris, A. whitneyi
Subordinate taxa
A. beckwithii var. weiserensis
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