Astragalus beckwithii |
Astragalus mulfordiae |
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Weiser's milkvetch |
Mulford's milkvetch |
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Habit | Plants perennial, caulescent, strigillose, hairs basifixed. | |
Stems | several–numerous, spreading to ascending, 10–30 cm. |
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Leaves | (2.5)4.5–10.5 cm; leaflets (7)15–25, linear-oblong, linear-oblanceolate, or filiform; terminal leaflet jointed to or confluent with rachis, 1–11 × 0.5–1.5 mm; tips obtuse or subacute; surfaces abaxially strigillose, adaxially glabrous; stipules 1.5–6 mm; at least lowermost connate-sheathing. |
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Inflorescences | racemes, loosely or remotely (5)8–20-flowered; peduncles (0.5)1–7 cm; bracts 0.7–2 mm; pedicels 0.7–2 mm; bracteoles 0–2. |
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Flowers | declined at anthesis; calyces 2.5–5 mm, usually white strigillose; tubes 1.5–3 mm; teeth subulate, 0.8–2 mm; corollas 6–8.2 mm, white or whitish; banners sometimes lilac-veined or -tinged; ovules 10–16. |
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Fruits | bilocular, pendulous, lunately half-ellipsoid, gently incurved, triquetrously compressed, 9–16 × 3–4.5 mm, finely strigillose; valves papery; stipes 3–5 mm. |
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Astragalus beckwithii |
Astragalus mulfordiae |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Sagebrush, sandy bluffs. Flowering May–Jun. 600–1300 m. Owy. ID. Native. Connate lower stipules, distant, narrow green leaflets, white or lilac-tinged flowers, and nodding, stipitate, trigonous, and bilocular fruits characterize this species. |
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Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 669 Richard Halse |
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